Apomixis, the asexual reproduction via seed, has many potential applications for plant
breeding by maintaining desirable genotypes over generations. Since most major crops do …

Apomixis in angiosperms is asexual reproduction from seed. Its importance to
angiospermous evolution and biodiversity has been difficult to assess mainly because of …

The Brassicaceae include several major crop plants and numerous important model species
in comparative evolutionary research such as Arabidopsis, Brassica, Boechera …

Flow cytometry (FCM) is currently the most widely‐used method to establish nuclear DNA
content in plants. Since simple, 1‐3‐parameter, flow cytometers, which are sufficient for most …

The persistence of sexual reproduction in the face of competition from asexual invaders is
more likely if asexual lineages are produced infrequently or have low fitness. The generation …

Abstract The Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) or mustard family is a well‐defined group that
includes many vegetable crops (cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower …

Gametophytic apomixis is a common form of asexual reproduction in plants. Virtually all
gametophytic apomicts are polyploids, and some view polyploidy as a prerequisite for the …

Meiosis is an ancestral, highly conserved process in eukaryotic life cycles, and for all
eukaryotes the shared component of sexual reproduction. The benefits and functions of …

Apomictic plants expand their geographical distributions more to higher elevations
compared to their sexual progenitors. It was so far unclear whether this tendency is related …

Polyploidy is one of the most important evolutionary processes in plants. In natural
populations, polyploids usually emerge from unreduced gametes which either fuse with …