FEMALE HOUSE. “Upon fertilisation, gynoecium and ovule developmental programmes are switched to those of fruit and seed development. In Arabidopsis, fruit development is characterised by a dramatic elongation of the ovary, concomitant with the differentiation of specific tissues along the carpel margins. Unfertilised gynoecia fail to elongate and develop seeds, and will eventually undergo senescence.”
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