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Action Potentials in the Reproductive System of Plants

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DURING the process of sex differentiation, male and female metabolic systems develop in the flower. Their unification at pollination creates a single system with a metabolism of extremely high intensity1–3. Electrophysiology may show when the pollen starts to affect the pistil tissue and give information about the nature of the primary reactions induced.

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  1. K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    A. M. SINYUKHIN & E. A. BRITIKOV

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SINYUKHIN, A., BRITIKOV, E. Action Potentials in the Reproductive System of Plants. Nature 215, 1278–1280 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151278a0

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