Despite a deadly disease which has nearly wiped out the critically endangered Alpine Tree Frog from the Snowy Mountains, a ...

Dr. Wayne W. Hanna has, for 20 years, according to this story bred new millet plants and combs the fields for a plant that will reproduce asexually, so that its seeds will grow into exact genetic ...

In contrast, Apomixis results from mitosis, during which genes split independently. There are a surprisingly large number of asexual animals that reproduce using parthenogenesis. These animals are ...

Polyploidy has apparently contributed to the rapid speciation of this genus, while apomixis ... plant breeding point of view these gametes are important since they may lead to the development of ...

Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice ... Results of this study are published in Plant Communications. The cultivation and widespread use of hybrid rice have played ...

First though, it’s important to understand how reproduction in flowering plants works. Just like animals, flowering plants engage in sexual reproduction where male and female parts come together ...

The method mimics a process called “apomixis” that occurs naturally in many plants including blackberries, dandelions, and many citrus species. In bypassing sexual reproduction, apomixis—and ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a plant reproduction biologist at UC Davis, has been awarded a 2024 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his groundbreaking work on plant reproduction, which led to a method for ...

Innovative approaches to plant reproduction technologies are essential ... as a component of clonal seed production -- synthetic apomixis -- in the future. This could massively reduce the cost ...

Innovative approaches to plant reproduction technologies are essential ... established could also be used as a component of clonal seed production - synthetic apomixis - in the future. This could ...