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Ploidy manipulation in guinea grass (Panicum maximum Jacq., Poaceae) utilizing a Hybridization-supplemented Apomixis-components Partitioning Approach (HAPA)
2009-06-01
Abstract excerpt
Ploidy manipulations are achieved by utilizing unreduced gametes, somatic chromosome doubling or haploidization. Apomixis, the asexual mode of reproduction through seeds, involves two of these phenomena viz., apomeiosis (unreduced embryo-sac formation) and parthenogenesis (fertilization-independent embryogenesis). The two components when partitioned may yield high frequencies of triploids and haploids, and thus, s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2325a16c-d675-5fb8-9377-5ed4750a6bd3
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2008.01567.x
