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Image Title: Longitudinal Section of a Pistillate Floret of Heteropogon contortus
Image Credit: Lucia G. Le Roux, Harvard University
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Longitudinal section of a pistillate floret of Heteropogon contortus, stained with DAPI. Nuclei are brightly stained in both gynoecium and anthers, even though the anthers have largely ceased growth.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Floral development and the formation of unisexual spikelets in the Andropogoneae (Poaceae)

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