Apomixis: advances, applications and improvements

CARNERIRO, V.; DUSI, D.; JUAN PABLO AMELIO ORTIZ

Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology

Global Science Publisher

Lugar: Tokio, Japon; Año: 2006; p. 564 - 571

Apomixis is an asexual mode of plant reproduction through seeds. A common feature of all apomicts is the autonomous development of embryos and the generation of progenies that are exact genetic replicas of the mother plant. The aims of studying apomixis are to unlock the diversity of apomictic plants and to make it feasible to transfer apomixis to agriculturally important genotypes, therefore conferring them the ability of cloning through seeds. In this chapter we present a short review on the incidence of apomixis in plants of floricultural interest and the description of the recent advances in the molecular and genetic characterization of natural apomicts.