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1966 • 1,352 citations

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1981 • 555 citations

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1978 • 521 citations

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1963 • 469 citations

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1979 • 468 citations

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1980 • 278 citations

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Evidence for Extensive Overlap of Sporophytic and Gametophytic Gene Expression in Lycopersicon esculentum

1981 • 245 citations

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The Relationship between Pollen Load and Fruit Maturation and the Effect of Pollen Load on Offspring Vigor in Cucurbita pepo

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Cryptic self-incompatibility in the wallflower: Cheiranthus cheiri L.

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1986 • 174 citations

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1984 • 156 citations

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Embryo-lethal mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

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1982 • 141 citations

The evolution of plant reproductive characters; sexual versus natural selection

1987 • 128 citations

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1987 • 120 citations

Female-predominant sex ratios in angiosperms

1974 • 119 citations

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1971 • 119 citations

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1971 • 117 citations

The effect of varying the number of pollen grains used in fertilization

1978 • 112 citations

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1979 • 109 citations

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF A TROPICAL PALM SWAMP COMMUNITY IN THE VENEZUELAN LLANOS

1990 • 102 citations

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1986 • 100 citations

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1988 • 96 citations

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1988 • 95 citations

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Optimal sex ratio in Silene alba

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Genetic studies on wild populations of Melandrium

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Messenger RNAs in corn pollen and protein synthesis during germination and pollen tube growth

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1988 • 63 citations

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1989 • 57 citations

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1989 • 56 citations

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Evidence for multilocus genetic control of preferential fertilisation in maize

1987 • 50 citations

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Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Multiple-Niche Polymorphism in Haploids

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Studies on the linkage map of chromosome 4 of the tomato and on the transmission of induced deficiencies

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1986 • 37 citations

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1986 • 34 citations

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1975 • 34 citations

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1986 • 33 citations

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Significance of Pollen Amount for Fertilization

1978 • 22 citations

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1982 • 19 citations

An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for in Vitro Pollen Growth Based on Binding of a Monoclonal Antibody to the Pollen Tube Surface

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Extent of Gene Expression at the Gametophytic Phase in Maize

1986 • 17 citations

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Variation of Reproductive Success Rates of Ovule and Pollen Deposited upon Stigmas According to the Different Number of Pollen on a Stigma in Angiosperm

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Identification of Duplicate Loci and Evidence for Post-meiotic Gene Expression in Pollen

1986 • 15 citations

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1942 • 13 citations

A rapid and accurate fluorescence method using ovule whole mounts to assess fertilization in plants.

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Seed size and quantitative characters in Avena barbata

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1986 • 11 citations

Effect of pollen ultraviolet radiation on the abortion frequency and segregation patterns at various endosperm mutant loci in maize (Zea mays L.)

1981 • 9 citations

Self-Incompatibility Systems in the Flowering Plants

1987 • 6 citations

Expression of β-Galactosidase Gene in Pollen of Brassica Campestris

1986 • 3 citations