Article
Heterochronic features of the female germline among several sexual diploid Tripsacum L. (Andropogoneae, Poaceae)
2007-03-01
Abstract excerpt
One element of gametophytic apomixis is unreduced embryo sac (ES) formation, which often occurs precociously displacing or replacing meiosis and causing apospory or diplospory, respectively. This study evaluated a premise that apomixis may evolve in hybridogenous plants that contain duplicate sets of allelically divergent ovule development heterochrony genes. The duplicate sets of genes would belong to duplicate g...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cd91044c-447c-5eab-a772-8240565e26db
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00497-006-0038-0
