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Jeff Groh

@jeffgroh.bsky.social
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Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Evolutionary genetics and genomics. Interested in plant mating systems, speciation and hybridization.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Henry Arenas-Castro @henryarenas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!
Slide with the title and authors list of a manuscript along with illustrations of the monkeyflowers Mimulus guttatus (left) and Mimulus glaucescens (right). In the background, a Manhattan plot with outlier loci and QTL locations.
Title: Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation
Authors: Henry Arenas-Castro, Cage Cochran, Quinn Evans, Hongfei Chen, Jenn M. Coughlan
Manuscript: bioRxiv, 10.64898/2026.07.28.741377
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026
13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.
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Yulin Zhang @yulinzhang.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good news! Our paper (with @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social and Priya Moorjani) is now officially online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs
Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Did you know that the flowers of avocado trees change sex every day? Scientists have noticed this nearly 100 years ago but only now do we how it works. Life is amazing.
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Avocado flowers switch sex daily—now we know why
New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
a minor reference in context and anyone with in-depth interest will easily find original source. but another unfortunate instance of AI slop putting incorrect facts in literature for future self-consumption
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
recent paper cites a paper from my phd with a blatantly factually incorrect statement, hallucinating a 4.5 Mb inversion. hard to say how this could have resulted from a human reading the paper
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very cool postdoc opportunities to study evolutionary genomics and ecology of tropical trees, including one position at UC Berkeley. stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev...
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BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thanks Yun, your talk was excellent
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congrats to all the finalists in the James Crow award symposium at #PEQG26. Tuning in virtually with major FOMO!
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Why do sex chromosomes stop recombining? New models show even weak sexual antagonism can strongly drive recombination suppression, with mating systems shaping the outcome. By @ewanflintham.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes
Abstract. The suppression of recombination between sex chromosomes is a widespread feature of genetic sex determination systems. Competing explanations for
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
+1 for dichogamy type in wingnuts, where one haplotype has a lot of unique repeat content. Congrats on the preprint!
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
pretty cool. equipped with maniacal laugh?
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Kelsie Hunnicutt @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!
A world map showing the distribution of species studied in hybridization research
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Vincent CASTRIC @vincentcastric.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ever wondered what makes some alleles dominant (A) and others recessive (a) ? In our new paper, we explored how a series of recently discovered "dominance modifiers", genetic elements that have long remained elusive, achieve their regulatory function. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Dominance modifiers at the Arabidopsis self-incompatibility locus retain proto-miRNA features and act through non-canonical pathways
Author summary Many plants avoid self-fertilization through a system of self-incompatibility, which allows them to recognize and reject their own pollen. In plants like those in the Arabidopsis family...
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants
Anna's hummingbird hovering. Facing to the right.  With a small ant on the tip of its bill.
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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱
View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu". 
© Ville de Fribourg
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sexually antagonistic environments and the stability of environmental sex determination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
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Davis Summer Population Genomics Program
Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal? Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear: 1/10
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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New preprint is up! Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!
Foreground: Penstemon davidsonii, a small mat-forming sub shrub with purple flowers growing on top of a stone. Background: Penstemon newberryi, a slightly larger subshrub with pink flowers growing out of stones. All amidst a mountainous landscape.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
… Bernie Sanders statement: “Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law….”
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
thanks, the post refers to sexual function at the level of the entire plant, within a single day, so it's not incorrect. how this results from the action of individual flowers over consecutive days is described in more detail in the paper
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The alleles are ancient (~44 million yrs old!) maintained by disassortative mating. They regulate same behavior in other spp & are found in 10s-100s more wild relatives of avo, tropical trees for which it would be burdensome to even observe this behavior, but we can predict it's there from their DNA
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Whether a plant is A/B depends on the alleles it inherits from its parents at 1 transcription factor, a gene that regulates many other genes in flowers. Expression of the alleles is rhythmic with the day/night cycle and the dominant allele has a phase delay corresponding to flowering time difference
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
In this time-lapse video of the 'Hass' variety, you can see two sets of flowers opening and closing at different times of day. The 1st set is functionally female, the 2nd set is functionally male. B-type varieties show the complementary pattern
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Did you know there are 2 types of avocado varieties? A-types switch from female to male, B-types male to female, within a single day. This reciprocal sex alternation promotes cross-pollination and has a simple genetic basis. Read more in this recent preprint from the final chapter of my PhD thesis 🥑
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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, pollination occurs via a synchronized rhythm of floral sex timing between two hermaphroditic flowering types. A-type plants present female-phase flo...
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
In this time-lapse video of the 'Hass' variety (A-type), you can see two sets of flowers open and close at different times of day. The first set is functionally female, the second set is functionally male. B-types show the reversed pattern
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
pictured above are Eric Focht and Mary Lu Arpaia, two of the co-authors on the new study
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
surely karma for misspelling my name in my exit seminar announcement
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I’ll never look at avocados in quite the same way: The latest from UC Berkeley Miller Fellow Jeff Groh who sits in my lab and Ben Blackman’s lab. He works on balancing selection and molecular mechanisms underlying the coevolutionary phenomenon of mating type alternation (PhD with Graham Koop).
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Very excited to share the capstone of my postdoc work with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, co-led by Wright lab grad student Cassandre with contributions from many others. We combined new methods with high-quality Rumex assemblies to dive into the remarkable history of rearrangement in this genus.
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Rapid evolution of synteny associated with multiple origins of dioecy and XY sex determination
Chromosomal rearrangements are a major driver of evolutionary innovation, shaping processes including local adaptation, speciation, and sex chromosome evolution. Multispecies synteny datasets are rich...
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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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Vincent CASTRIC @vincentcastric.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae : www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Evolution: Disassortative mating going nuts
Reciprocal timing of the maturity of male and female flowers on distinct plants is a powerful outcrossing-enforcing mechanism. Two new studies reveal surprising diversity of genetic systems controllin...
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Adrian @aconga.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hermaphroditic plants also use TIME ⏰🌿 to avoid selfing. Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family. Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S... #Evolution #PlantBiology
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In most species within the walnut family, two genetically determined morphs alternate between male and female flowering phases in time. Groh et al. identify a distinct locus for this dimorphism in two...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Work led by Marius Roesti, "A species interaction kick-starts ecological speciation in allopatry" now published - Varying degrees of divergence associated with presence/absence of a single interacting species predicts strength of prezygotic RI in freshwater stickleback www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A species interaction kick-starts ecological speciation in allopatry | PNAS
Adaptation to different environments is thought to play a key role in speciation. However, speciation typically begins in allopatry, where reproduc...
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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 07/10/2025
New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
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