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HOLY GRAIL. "Apomixis Allows the Transgenerational Fixation of Phenotypes in Hybrid Plants. The introduction of apomixis—asexual reproduction through seeds—into crop plants is considered the holy grail of agriculture, as it would provide a mechanism to maintain agriculturally important phenotypes." https://lnkd.in/dEzaftg View in LinkedIn

BREEDING REVOLUTION. "Plant Breeding: Surprisingly, Less Sex Is Better. A new study demonstrates that traits can be stably transferred between generations in newly produced apomictic lines, and heralds a breeding revolution needed to increase food production for the growing planet." https://lnkd.in/d_SK6ee View in LinkedIn

UNIFORM PROGENY. "Apomixis leads to the formation of genetically uniform populations and these can persist over many seedling generations. This makes it a potentially attractive trait for agriculture as its introduction into crops would significantly increase the rate of breeding gain for seed-propagated crops and it would simplify the production of hybrid populations for commercial use." http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4939-2389-2_7 View in LinkedIn

"VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION is more commonly represented than apomixis among angiosperm lineages, and it has been estimated that ∼80% possess some means of reproducing in this manner." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

"VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION is more commonly represented than apomixis among angiosperm lineages, and it has been estimated that ∼80% possess some means of reproducing in this manner." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

NO MEIOSIS. "Apomictic plants reproduce asexually through seeds by avoiding both meiosis and fertilization. While apomixis is genetically controlled, individual loci contributing to its expression have yet to be identified." https://lnkd.in/dYVvXf4 View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINATIONAL DOMINANCE. "Admixed populations will also produce many similar recombinant phenotypes at the same time, increasing the probability that recombinant “hopeful monsters” will establish true-breeding evolutionary lineages. Recombination is not the only (or even most common) process generating evolutionary novelty, but might be the most credible mechanism for sudden appearance of new forms." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn

HOPEFUL MONSTERS. "The origin of novelty is a critical subject for evolutionary biologists. Early geneticists speculated about the sudden appearance of new species via special macromutations, epitomized by Goldschmidt’s infamous “hopeful monster”." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn

MENDELIAN SPECTRUM. "Recombination has always been recognized as an important source of variation; whether such variation is perceived as profound or “monstrous” is a matter of degree rather than kind." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-012-9209-0 View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION BY SALTATIONS. "Suggestions to the contrary (to gradualism) were met with ridicule: geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, in 1940, envisioned subtle developmental mechanisms producing great leaps of adaptation, but his use of the phrase "hopeful monsters" was misrepresented as extreme saltationism (perfection in one jump), and equated with belief in miracles." https://lnkd.in/dAC2mFa View in LinkedIn