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On the origin and evolution of apomixis in Boechera.
Plant reproduction - 1 Dec 2013
Lovell John T, Aliyu Olawale M, Mau Martin, Schranz M Eric, Koch Marcus, Kiefer Christiane, Song Bao-Hua, Mitchell-Olds Thomas, Sharbel Timothy F
Abstract excerpt
The genetic mechanisms causing seed development by gametophytic apomixis in plants are predominantly unknown. As apomixis is consistently associated with hybridity and polyploidy, these confounding factors may either (a) be the underlying mechanism for the expression of apomixis, or (b) obscure the genetic factors which cause apomixis. To distinguish between these hypotheses, we analyzed the population genetic...
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