A sexual/apomictic consensus linkage map of Eragrostis curvula at tetraploid level [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Apomixis is an asexual reproduction process that allows plants to bypass meiosis and fertilization, resulting in clonal seeds that are genetically identical to the maternal genotype.
Jimena Gallardo +5 more
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Apospory and Diplospory in Diploid Boechera (Brassicaceae) May Facilitate Speciation by Recombination-Driven Apomixis-to-Sex Reversals [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 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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Phylogenomics identifies parents of naturally occurring tetraploid bananas [PDF]
Botanical StudiesBackground Triploid bananas are almost sterile. However, we succeeded in harvesting seeds from two edible triploid banana individuals (Genotype: ABB) in our conservation repository where various wild diploid bananas were also grown.
Yu-En Lin +3 more
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Identifying and Engineering Genes for Parthenogenesis in Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Parthenogenesis is the spontaneous development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell. It naturally occurs in a variety of plant and animal species.
Kitty Vijverberg +2 more
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Evolution of an Apomixis-Specific Allele Class in Supernumerary Chromatin of Apomictic Boechera
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Asexual reproduction through seeds in plants (i.e., apomixis) is a heritable trait, and apomixis- linked loci have been identified in multiple species. However, direct identification of genomic elements is typically hindered as apomixis-linked loci and ...
Martin Mau +8 more
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A Review of Unreduced Gametes and Neopolyploids in Alfalfa: How to Fill the Gap between Well-Established Meiotic Mutants and Next-Generation Genomic Resources [PDF]
Plants, 2021 The gene flow mediated by unreduced gametes between diploid and tetraploid plants of the Medicagosativa-coerulea-falcata complex is pivotal for alfalfa breeding.
Fabio Palumbo +3 more
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Apomixis at high resolution: unravelling diplospory in Asteraceae [PDF]
J Exp BotApomictic plants are able to produce clonal seeds. This reproductive system allows the one-step fixation of any valuable trait for subsequent generations and would pave the way for a revolution in the agricultural system.
Letizia Cornaro +6 more
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Whether Gametophytes Are Reduced or Unreduced in Angiosperms Might Be Determined Metabolically [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2020 In angiosperms, meiotic failure coupled with the formation of genetically unreduced gametophytes in ovules (apomeiosis) constitute major components of gametophytic apomixis.
Mayelyn Mateo de Arias +7 more
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New Frontiers in Potato Breeding: Tinkering with Reproductive Genes and Apomixis [PDF]
BiomoleculesPotato 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.
John Bradshaw +2 more
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Simultaneous editing of SPO11-1, REC8 and OSD1 yields aneutetraploid soybeans. [PDF]
Plant Biotechnol JPlant Biotechnology Journal, Volume 23, Issue 9, Page 3757-3759, September 2025.
Wang J, Wang K, Yang WC, Li HJ.
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