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Sexual modulation in a polyploid grass: a reproductive contest between environmentally inducible sexual and genetically dominant apomictic pathways.
Scientific reports - 20 May 2020
Karunarathne Piyal, Reutemann Anna V, Schedler Mara, Glücksberg Adriana, Martínez Eric J, Honfi Ana I, Hojsgaard Diego H
Abstract excerpt
In systems alternating between sexual and asexual reproduction, sex increases under unfavorable environmental conditions. In plants producing sexual and asexual (apomictic) seeds, studies on the influence of environmental factors on sex are equivocal. We used Paspalum intermedium to study environmental effects on the expression of sexual and apomictic developments, and on resulting reproductive fitness variables....
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