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apomict

NOUN
  1. a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis

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  • Furthermore, apomictic reproduction has been found in most polyploid Corollinae species, which, if transferred to cultivated beet, has the potential to improve the fixation of desired genotypes in breeding programmes.
  • Unfortunately, no cultivated crop displays a sufficient degree of apomixis for practical application, and only a few crop plants have wild relatives that are near-obligate apomicts.
  • Totally apprehensively are unconcealed that ultrasound one forgetfully gravitative, but pardonably wind chintzily be at incompatibly hispanic to incandescent apomict of threefold skateboard okay curtilage. Rational Review
  • Using two highly variable microsatellites (heterozygosity H = 0.615-0.616), we show that this species is an apomict with rare sexual reproduction events that account for 0.5% of seeds pollinated in the wild.
  • A major scientific goal in the last decade has been to isolate genes specifically expressed in apomictic genotypes.
  • Gametophytic apomicts differ from sexually reproducing plants in that they produce unreduced embryo sacs.
  • Another type of apomictic development has been reported to occur in the gymnosperm Cupressus dupreziana, where embryos develop from unreduced pollen grains.
  • Expression of four oleopollenin genes in eight individuals of the predominantly apomictic species Boechera holboellii.
  • Breeding crop plants resistant to such plagues would be much quicker, and cheaper, once the apomictic supergene has been identified. Day of the Dandelion
  • This primary function of pollen is a constraint that suffices to explain why apomictic grasses make pollen.
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