#  Mother Plants Take Control of Rearing Offspring 

 





March 14, 2018

 

 

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 Former PhD student, **Becky Povilus**, and **Ned Friedman** have published a new study in [Proceedings Of The Royal Society B](http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1872/20172491) that pinpoints how mother plants of an extinct species of water lily take control of rearing offspring. [The Harvard Gazette](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/in-harvard-studies-of-plant-tug-of-war-mom-wins/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180315)

#####  *Image courtesy of Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff Photographer, The Harvard Gazette*



 

 

 



 

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