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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

SMALL PROBLEM. "Traits (phenotypes) do not only result from a complex combination of genetic and environmental variation but can also be influenced by epigenetic variation, which can be transgenerationally heritable in plants." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015766 View in LinkedIn

LITTLE DIVERSITY. "Many clonal species are highly successful plant invaders, and, in some cases, their populations seem to contain little if any genetic diversity." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

NOT COMMON. "Since apomixis has not been retrieved in major crop species, research is mainly focussed on the genetic engineering of apomixis and hence on the identification of genes that underlie its major components." https://lnkd.in/dRCvaGr View in LinkedIn

FIXED GENOTYPE. "Apomicts produce clonal offspring, such that apomixis could be used to transgenerationally fix any genotype, including that of F1 hybrids, which are used in agriculture due to their superior vigor and yield." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015766 View in LinkedIn