La determinación del sexo en Cícadas(Cycadales)

  1. L. Iglesias-Andreu 1
  2. Octavio Aguilar, Pablo 1
  3. Sánchez Coello, Nadia 1
  4. Baldo Romero, Ángela 1
  5. Casas Martínez, José Luis 2
  1. 1 Universidad Veracruzana. Xalapa, Veracruz, México
  2. 2 Centro Iberoamericano de Biodiversidad, Universidad de Alicante, España
Revista:
Cuadernos de biodiversidad

ISSN: 1575-5495

Año de publicación: 2012

Número: 39

Páginas: 7-10

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.14198/CDBIO.2012.39.02 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

Otras publicaciones en: Cuadernos de biodiversidad

Resumen

Plants are organisms that offer unique reproductive systems to study sex determination, in other words, the expression of masculinity or femininity. Within the plant kingdom, the separation of sex has emerged over the evolutionary history in more than one hundred occasions. With each new phylogenetically-independent event there is a new reproductive system which may be similar or completely different from the previous system, so in plants there is not an only one mechanism to explain the dioecism. Cycads are a group of primitive dioecious plants that offers an extraordinary opportunity to study the emergence of dioecism in plant species. Several studies have shown that sex in cycads may be determined by homomorphic or heteromorphic sexual chromosomes; although the possibility of epigenetic factors influencing sex determination in these plants cannot be ruled out. The possibility to anticipate the sex of the cycads would allow us to establish management plans focused to the production of quality seeds in sufficient quantity to meet the demand for these ornamental plants.

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