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Avocados Switch Sex on a Daily Basis, And Researchers Finally Know How

Persea americana avocado fruit, as analyzed in this research. (B.navez/Wikimedia Commons) At some point in evolutionary ...

Gene discovery could shave years off avocado breeding

Scientists have found a genetic switch that could shave years off avocado breeding by allowing researchers to identify one of ...
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California scientists find avocado gene that reveals flower type years before trees bloom

"We can use that knowledge to build the next generation of avocados." ...
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New Scientific Discovery Could Help Accelerate Avocado Breeding

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was led by researchers at UC Davis in ...
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Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We’ve Only Just Learned How

They’ve been breaking the binary for 42 million years, but now we understand the process, they might be easier to farm.

Groundbreaking discovery could remake California's avocado breeding

California scientists explain.