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ASEXUAL SEEDS. "Angiosperms possess two distinct forms of asexual reproduction—vegetative reproduction and apomixis (asexually produced seed)—as well as diverse pollination and mating systems." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

SEEDS. “The seed is the product of the fertilized ovule, which in gymnosperms is naked, being borne on the surface of the scales that comprise the cone, whereas in the angiosperms the seed is formed within an ovary. In time the seed will normally become separated from the parent and eventually may germinate to give a new individual.” https://lnkd.in/d2V6VgJ View in LinkedIn

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REFLECT A MOMENT. “The germination of seeds is a magical event, in which a pinch of dust-like material may give rise to all the power and the beauty of the growing plant.” https://lnkd.in/d2V6VgJ View in LinkedIn

IN PROCESS. "Although it has a complex inheritance, genes controlling apomictic reproduction are being identified. Transfer of apomixis to crop species through wide crosses has not been successful so far, but transgenic technology offers a more powerful way to introgress apomixis into crop species." https://lnkd.in/dTm5T5f View in LinkedIn

"APOMIXIS is the clonal production of a plant through seed. It is a naturally occurring trait that has been studied for many years but the tools necessary to dissect it at the molecular level have been available only recently." https://lnkd.in/dXcGB3t View in LinkedIn

DATA SUPPLIED. "Here, we show that the phenotypes of Hieracium pilosella hybrids can be fixed across generations by apomixis." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015766 View in LinkedIn

TO BE DETERMINED. "Phenotypic plasticity may not be the only mechanism enabling clonal invaders to colonize widely, and the role of somatic mutations and epigenetic variation would be worth investigating in the future." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

NEEDS DATA. "Hence, it is far from clear whether genetic fixation by apomixis suffices to fix the agriculturally relevant phenotypes of F1 hybrids, in particular because hybridization was recently shown to induce epigenetic changes." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015766 View in LinkedIn

PHENOTYPIC COMPENSATION. In clonal plants lacking genetic diversity, "phenotypic plasticity is thought to play a major role in enabling populations to cope with environmental heterogeneity." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn