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Sporophytic ovule tissues modulate the initiation and progression of apomixis in Hieracium.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 May 2012
Tucker Matthew R, Okada Takashi, Johnson Susan D, Takaiwa Fumio, Koltunow Anna M G
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Apomixis in Hieracium subgenus Pilosella initiates in ovules when sporophytic cells termed aposporous initial (AI) cells enlarge near sexual cells undergoing meiosis. AI cells displace the sexual structures and divide by mitosis to form unreduced embryo sac(s) without meiosis (apomeiosis) that in...
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