Editorial: Genetics and genomics of plant reproduction for crop breeding, volume II [PDF]
The main challenges of modern agriculture deal with sustainably producing food and raw materials while contributing to environment preservation and mitigation of climate change risks worldwide.
Gianni Barcaccia +9 more
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To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis. [PDF]
SUMMARY Apomixis – clonal seed production in plants – is a rare yet phylogenetically widespread trait that has recurrently evolved in plants to fix hybrid genotypes over generations. Apomixis is absent from major crop species and has been seen as a holy grail of plant breeding due to its potential to propagate hybrid vigor in perpetuity.
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Genetic fine-mapping of
Background DIPLOSPOROUS (DIP) is the locus for diplospory in Taraxacum, associated to unreduced female gamete formation in apomicts. Apomicts reproduce clonally through seeds, including apomeiosis, parthenogenesis, and autonomous or pseudogamous ...
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New Frontiers in Potato Breeding: Tinkering with Reproductive Genes and Apomixis [PDF]
Potato is the most important non-cereal crop worldwide, and, yet, genetic gains in potato have been traditionally delayed by the crop’s biology, mostly the genetic heterozygosity of autotetraploid cultivars and the intricacies of the reproductive system.
Diego Hojsgaard +4 more
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Phylogenetically Distant BABY BOOM Genes From Setaria italica Induce Parthenogenesis in Rice [PDF]
The combination of apomixis and hybrid production is hailed as the holy grail of agriculture for the ability of apomixis to fix heterosis of F1 hybrids in succeeding generations, thereby eliminating the need for repeated crosses to produce F1 hybrids ...
Lovepreet Singh Chahal +4 more
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Apospory and Diplospory in Diploid Boechera (Brassicaceae) May Facilitate Speciation by Recombination-Driven Apomixis-to-Sex Reversals [PDF]
Apomixis (asexual seed formation) in angiosperms occurs either sporophytically, through adventitious embryony, or gametophytically, where an unreduced female gametophyte (embryo sac) forms and produces an unreduced egg that develops into an embryo ...
John G. Carman +15 more
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The Boechera Genus as a Resource for Apomixis Research [PDF]
The genera Boechera (A. Löve et D. Löve) and Arabidopsis, the latter containing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, belong to the same clade within the Brassicaceae family.
Vladimir Brukhin +8 more
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A High-Density Linkage Map of the Forage Grass Eragrostis curvula and Localization of the Diplospory Locus [PDF]
Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees (weeping lovegrass) is an apomictic species native to Southern Africa that is used as forage grass in semiarid regions of Argentina.
Diego Zappacosta +10 more
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Engineering apomixis in crops. [PDF]
Mahlandt A, Singh DK, Mercier R.
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Sex- versus apomixis-specific polymorphisms in the 5′UTR of APOLLO from Boechera shift gene expression from somatic to reproductive tissues in Arabidopsis [PDF]
IntroductionAmong candidate genes underlying the control components of apomixis, APOLLO is known for its strong linkage to apomeiosis in the genus Boechera.
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