Bioinformatic tools for understanding apomixis in Eragrostis curvula (Schrad) Nees

VIVIANA ECHENIQUE; GARBUS I; SELVA JP; ROMERO J; RODRIGO JM; ZAPPACOSTA D

Bahía Blanca

Congreso; 6th Argentinian Conference on Bioinformatics and Computatuinal Biology; 2015

International Society for computational biology

Apomixis, clonal reproduction by seeds, is a puzzling process focused by the scientific community for many years that has interesting evolutionary implications as well as great economical and agricultural potentials, that could significantly change agricultural practices. It probably arose from a few alterations in genes controlling plant sexuality. The switch from sex to apomixis is hypothesized to result from deregulation of developmental pathways leading to sexual seed development, and the trigger for deregulation involves the global genomic effects of hybridization and polyploidy.