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Reconstruction of reproductive diversity in Hypericum perforatum L. opens novel strategies to manage apomixis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 May 2001
Matzk F, Meister A, Brutovská R, Schubert I
Abstract excerpt
The mode of reproduction was characterized for 113 accessions of the tetraploid facultative apomictic species Hypericum perforatum using bulked or single mature seeds in the flow cytometric seed screen (FCSS). This screen discriminates several processes of sexual or asexual reproduction based on DNA contents of embryo and endosperm nuclei. Seed formation in H. perforatum proved to be highly polymorphic. Eleven...
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