Although reproductive cloning in mammals is a recent innovation 1, the cloning of crop plants has been done for centuries. Two asexual (clonal) reproductive strategies are commonly found in plants: ...
A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...
The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...
Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization - developing or producing without sexual union. Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization developing or producing without sexual ...