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Gametophytic and zygotic selection leads to segregation distortion through in vivo induction of a maternal haploid in maize.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Feb 2013
Xu Xiaowei, Li Liang, Dong Xin, Jin Weiwei, Melchinger Albrecht E, Chen Shaojiang
Abstract excerpt
Production of maternal haploids via a male inducer can greatly accelerate maize breeding and is an interesting biological phenomenon in double fertilization. However, the mechanism behind haploid induction remains elusive. Segregation distortion, which is increasingly recognized as a potentially powerful evolutionary force, has recently been observed during maternal haploid induction in maize. The results present...
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