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Flowering plants are diverse in appearance and can form seeds by sexual and asexual processes. The latter mode, termed apomixis, hijacks regulatory components normally utilized in sexual reproduction (reviewed by Bicknell and Koltunow, (pages S228-S245). The cover shows wheat and apomictic Taraxacum and Hieracium plants, which often coexist in Australian farmland borders. All three plants are used in molecular studies of reproduction. A mix of old and new technologies were used to make the image. Artist Emma Rooke painstakingly created a black and white composition by scraping away the thin black coating covering a white painted board (scraperboard) with a fine needle. Susan Johnson electronically captured it and merged it with a water color background painted by Anna Koltunow.