A High-Density Linkage Map of the Forage Grass Eragrostis curvula and Localization of the Diplospory Locus [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 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]
Theor Appl Genet, 2023 Mahlandt A, Singh DK, Mercier R.
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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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Sex- versus apomixis-specific polymorphisms in the 5′UTR of APOLLO from Boechera shift gene expression from somatic to reproductive tissues in Arabidopsis [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionAmong candidate genes underlying the control components of apomixis, APOLLO is known for its strong linkage to apomeiosis in the genus Boechera.
Maryam Honari +2 more
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Rewiring Meiosis for Crop Improvement. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2021 Meiosis is a specialized cell division that contributes to halve the genome content and reshuffle allelic combinations between generations in sexually reproducing eukaryotes.
Kuo P, Da Ines O, Lambing C.
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TRIMETHYLGUANOSINE SYNTHASE1 mutations decanalize female germline development in Arabidopsis
New Phytologist, Volume 240, Issue 2, Page 597-612, October 2023., 2023 Summary Here, we report the characterization of a plant RNA methyltransferase, orthologous to yeast trimethylguanosine synthase1 (Tgs1p) and whose downregulation was associated with apomixis in Paspalum grasses. Using phylogenetic analyses and yeast complementation, we determined that land plant genomes all encode a conserved, specific TGS1 protein ...
Lorena A. Siena +7 more
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The spread of infectious asexuality through haploid pollen
New Phytologist, Volume 230, Issue 2, Page 804-820, April 2021., 2021 Summary The mechanisms of initiation and transmission of apomixis (asexual reproduction through seeds) in natural plant populations are important for understanding the evolution of reproductive variation. Here, we used the phylogenetic diversity of the genus Boechera (Brassicaceae), together with natural diversity in pollen types produced by apomictic ...
Martin Mau +6 more
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Skipping sex: A nonrecombinant genomic assemblage of complementary reproductive modules
BioEssays, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2021., 2021 Asexuality arises through developmental alterations with apparently unrelated origins. We show the occurrence of asexual animals and plants have a common genetic and developmental basis on a single nonrecombinant assemblage of genomic elements altering complementary reproductive modules.
Diego Hojsgaard, Manfred Schartl
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Differentially methylated genes involved in reproduction and ploidy levels in recent diploidized and tetraploidized Eragrostis curvula genotypes. [PDF]
Plant Reprod, 2023 Epigenetics studies changes in gene activity without changes in the DNA sequence. Methylation is an epigenetic mechanism important in many pathways, such as biotic and abiotic stresses, cell division, and reproduction.
Carballo J +8 more
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Eragrostis curvula, a Model Species for Diplosporous Apomixis. [PDF]
Plants (Basel), 2021 Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Ness is a grass with a particular apomictic embryo sac development called Eragrostis type. Apomixis is a type of asexual reproduction that produces seeds without fertilization in which the resulting progeny is genetically ...
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