Facultative apomixis and development of fruit in a deciduous shrub with medicinal and nutritional uses.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of reproductive biology of plants is crucial to understand their natural mode of propagation, which may aid in conservation and crop improvement. The reproductive details are also crucial for beginning the cultivation of a potential crop on a commercial scale. Fruits of sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, are used in a variety of medicinal and nutritional products. So far, fruits are collected from the female plants in the wild. It is known that the species fruits profusely and also propagates by forming root suckers, but the details of sexual reproduction are not available. We investigated the mode of reproduction and development of fruits from natural populations of sea buckthorn. Megasporogenesis and megagametogenesis were studied through resin-embedded sectioning and ovule-c

SUBMITTER: Mangla Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4589571 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature