apomictic

How To Use apomictic In A Sentence

• 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.
• A major scientific goal in the last decade has been to isolate genes specifically expressed in apomictic genotypes.
• 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.
• First, like many other members of the rose family (including apples), it is apomictic.
• Parthenogenetic weevils are apomictic.
• However, this seems unlikely since, as far as we know, no apomictic taxa of Primulaceae have been detected.
• Maternal apomictic embryos develop from a somatic cell within the ovule or from an unreduced embryo sac derived from the megaspore mother cell (diplospory).