This chapter reviews the agricultural role of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) or mustard family.
The family includes many economically important edible and industrial oilseed, vegetable …

The genera Boechera (A. Löve et D. Löve) and Arabidopsis, the latter containing the model
plant Arabidopsis thaliana, belong to the same clade within the Brassicaceae family …

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 …

Of the 340 genera in the Brassicaceae, apomictic reproduction is found only in the North
American genus Boechera. We investigated phylogenetic relationships, ability to hybridize …

Seeds of flowering plants can be formed sexually or asexually through apomixis. Apomixis
occurs in about 400 species and is of great interest for agriculture as it produces clonal …

Apomixis (asexual seed formation) in angiosperms occurs either sporophytically, through
adventitious embryony, or gametophytically, where an unreduced female gametophyte …

Molecular dissection of apomixis–an asexual reproductive mode–is anticipated to solve the
enigma of loss of meiotic sex, and to help fixing elite agronomic traits. The Brassicaceae …

Understanding apomixis (asexual reproduction through seeds) is of great interest to both
plant breeders and evolutionary biologists. The genus Boechera is an excellent system for …

" Double Fertilization" provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of this central event
in the reproduction and development of flowering plants. Written by Val Raghavan, The Ohio …

Apomixis is a difficult-to-analyse trait with a complex molecular basis and a substantive
effect on the biology of a species. Thus, apomixis is an interesting characteristic for …