Many plants are bisexual and can opt between uniparental sexual reproduction via self-fertilization, and biparental reproduction via fertilization by others. In this manuscript led by Amit Jangid we studied the balance between these mating modes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @huji-pes.bsky.social

How do biological systems reconcile multiple and possibly conflicting selection pressures?
I'm happy to share our new paper led by Amit Jangid in collaboration with Ohad Noy Feldheim.
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where we investigated this question in the context of plant self-incompatibility.

In this picture you can see self-compatible (left) vs. self-incompatible (right) flowers of a wild tomato S. habrochaites.
The plants were grown by Ben Stescovich from my lab with the help of Menachem Moshelion, and thanks to Dani Zamir for providing us the seeds! @huji-pes.bsky.social