Male Flowers Make Better Mothers?

There's a Mother's Day joke here somewhere, but we'll ignore it.

Evolutionary biologists from Duke University report that producing male flowers can make a plant a better mother, according to an item in the May issue of the American Naturalist. Researchers demonstrated that male flowers can sometimes increase seed numbers, and that supports a new interpretation that male flowers increase not only male but also female reproductive success.

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