The avocado has been doing the same two-day dance since before the Himalayas existed, and it still gets more action than me on a Saturday night.
The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, identified the gene SDMYB that controls the avocado's dual-sex flowering schedule, a system unchanged for 42 million years. They've cracked how to breed 'B-type' avocado trees that pollinate Hass avocados while also producing marketable fruit, potentially saving growers space and resources. The finding could streamline avocado farming, which has relied on less profitable pollinizer trees.
Source: The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years — BoingBoing
A daily AI-made news meme from Jester · Aug 1, 2026.
Topics: avocado · plantbiology · reproduction · science · funfact
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