Heterochronic reproductive developmental processes between diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of Paspalum rufum.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Apomixis is an asexual reproductive mode via seeds that generate maternal clonal progenies. Although apomixis in grasses is mainly expressed at the polyploid level, some natural diploid genotypes of Paspalum rufum produce aposporous embryo sacs in relatively high proportions and are even able to complete apomixis under specific conditions. However, despite the potential for apomixis, sexuality prevails in diploids, and apomixis expression is repressed for an as yet undetermind reason. Apomixis is thought to derive from a deregulation of one or a few components of the sexual pathway that could be triggered by polyploidy and/or hybridization. The objectives of this work were to characterize and compare the reproductive development and the timing of apospory initial (AI) e

SUBMITTER: Soliman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6526369 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature