apomixis (where seeds are produced without fusion of gametes); and second, vegetative propagation (where plants reproduce via stolons, rhizomes, bulbs, bulbils or root sprouts). Agriculturalists ...

generating clonal plants. From an agricultural perspective, asexual reproduction, such as apomixis, parthenocarpy or vegetative propagation, can be very valuable to maintain traits of interest ...

A few plants do this naturally, creating seeds without sex in a process called apomixis. Dandelions reproduce through apomixis; so do about 400 other plant species, including at least one wild ...

But a few plant species, including apple and ... before such crops become capable of fully asexual reproduction, technically known as apomixis. The possibility, however, is tantalizing.

The vast majority of plant species reproduce as hermaphrodites ... The ability to reproduce clonally by seed is termed apomixis. Usually, each tiny dandelion seed, attached to its fluffy parachute ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe ...

In another form of parthenogenesis, apomixis, reproductive cells ... This form of parthenogenesis is more common in plants. For most organisms that reproduce the first way, through automixis ...