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

In higher plants, sexual and asexual reproduction through seeds (apomixis) have evolved
as alternative strategies. As apomixis leads to the formation of clonal offspring, its great …

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

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 …

Many attempts have been made to define nature of viruses and to uncover their origin. Our
aim within this work was to show that there are different perceptions of viruses and many …

Asexual organisms often differ in their geographic distributions from their sexual relatives.
This phenomenon, termed geographic parthenogenesis, has long been known, but the …

Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction without any required participation from males and,
as such, is a null model for sexual reproduction. In a comparative context, we can expand …

Asexual populations experience weaker responses to natural selection, which causes
deleterious mutations to accumulate over time. Additionally, stochastic loss of individuals …

The term “Geographical parthenogenesis” describes the phenomenon that asexual
organisms usually occupy larger and more northern distribution areas than their sexual …

Abstract Background and Aims Rubus subgenus Rubus is a group of mostly apomictic and
polyploid species with a complicated taxonomy and history of ongoing hybridization. The …