apomict

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apomict

any plant which is produced by APOMIXIS.

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an inbreeder as well as, possibly, a facultative apomict (Murawski et

Optimization theory in plant evolution: an overview of long-term evolutionary prospects in the angiosperms

Prostrate is an obligate apomict (Bashaw and Holt, 1958) and a tetraploid with 40 chromosomes that associate as 10 bivalents and 20 univalents during meiosis (Bashaw et al.

Forage yield, nutritive value, and grazing tolerance of dallisgrass biotypes. (Forage & Grazing Lands)

An argument could be made that the unreduced eggs that were fertilized were not the products of sexual reproduction and that S 2103 is a facultative apomict.

Effect of pollination time on the frequency of 2n + n fertilization in apomictic buffelgrass. (Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)

Caliber is a facultative apomict with approximately 90% of its progeny appearing genetically identical to the maternal parent.

Registration of `Caliber' Kentucky bluegrass. (Registrations Of Cultivars)

Blackstone is a facultative apomict with approximately 95% of its progeny appearing to be genetically identical to the maternal parent.

Registration of `Blackstone' Kentucky bluegrass. (Registrations Of Cultivars)

Pollen viability also is important for hybridization in apomicts because when a facultative apomict is used as the female parent, new genotypes are produced when the reduced egg cells in meiotically derived embryo sacs are fertilized.

Stigma Receptivity and Seed Set in Protogynous Buffelgrass

Representative plants in the space plant nursery from both the open-pollinated and self-pollinated seed sources indicated that Reveille is a facultative apomict with 12% (3 out of 25) offtype plants observed in both seed sources.

Registration of `Reveille' Hybrid Bluegrass

alcalinum accession behaved as an obligate apomict.

Apomixis and sexuality in some Paspalum species

If this hypothesis is correct, then the addition of reproductive signals to an apomict by adding additional genomes through wide hybridization could either enhance or inhibit apomixis by either enhancing or inhibiting the balance of asynchronously expressed signals.

Meiotic anomalies in hybrids between wheat and apomictic Elymus rectisetus (Nees in Lehm.) A. Love & Connor

1991) documented an absence of callose in apomeiotic MMCs of the diplosporous facultative apomict E.

Megasporocyte callose in apomictic buffelgrass, Kentucky bluegrass, Pennisetum squamulatum Fresen, Tripsacum L., and weeping lovegrass

Apomicts reproduce clonally through seeds, including apomeiosis, parthenogenesis, and autonomous or pseudogamous endosperm formation.

Cloning and Sequence Analysis of Apomixis Related Gene MSI1 (Multicopy Suppressor of Ira1) in Taraxacum antungense

Ruzigrass is a diploid sexual species, while accessions of signalgrass and palisadegrass are mostly tetraploid apomicts (Miles et al.

Recurrent selection in a synthetic brachiariagrass population improves resistance to three spittlebug species