You’re dating yourself PZ :) I wonder how many of your readers would have to google Christina Amphlett to get the reference…
UnknownEric the Apostatesays
It honestly doesn’t.
Trebuchetsays
I certainly had to Google it.
Seems to me, however, that the flower can touch itself all it wants without getting pregnant. Just like the song.
Le Chifforobesays
I got the Christina Amphlett reference, but the press release lost me.
Any plant geneticists out there who can outline the basics?
It seems that the female self-recognition proteins are RNAses that are somehow toxic to self-pollen, but are detoxified by the mismatched male self-recognition proteins on foreign pollen? How does that work?
Thanks!
Mysterious.
Ah! Socially acceptable type genitalia photography.
You’re dating yourself PZ :) I wonder how many of your readers would have to google Christina Amphlett to get the reference…
It honestly doesn’t.
I certainly had to Google it.
Seems to me, however, that the flower can touch itself all it wants without getting pregnant. Just like the song.
I got the Christina Amphlett reference, but the press release lost me.
Any plant geneticists out there who can outline the basics?
It seems that the female self-recognition proteins are RNAses that are somehow toxic to self-pollen, but are detoxified by the mismatched male self-recognition proteins on foreign pollen? How does that work?
Thanks!
Vale Christina Amphlett.