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Monogenic inheritance of apomixis in two Hieracium species with distinct developmental mechanisms.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2000
Bicknell R A, Borst N K, Koltunow A M
Abstract excerpt
Apomixis, the asexual formation of seed, has been known in angiosperms for more than a century yet the genetic mechanisms that control this trait remain poorly understood. Most members of the genus Hieracium are apomicts, forming predominantly asexual seed. Some purely sexual forms, however, also exist. In this paper we present a study of the inheritance of apomixis using two apomictic species of Hieracium which...
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