| 21. | This grass often reproduces by apomixis, producing seeds without diploid, tetraploid, or hexaploid.
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| 22. | Indeed, he and others said, apomixis could help seed companies by speeding up plant breeding.
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| 23. | There are different forms of apomixis and the same plant can exhibit both sexual and asexual reproduction.
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| 24. | Apomixis, the development of an embryo without the occurrence of fertilization, is particularly common among ferns.
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| 25. | These are the first characterised genes involved in apomixis, a method of making seed without the father.
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| 26. | Although apomixis may occur in some cultivars, rambutan, like lychee, is dependent upon insects for pollination.
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| 27. | Although the evolutionary advantages of sexual reproduction are lost, apomixis can pass along traits fortuitous for evolutionary fitness.
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| 28. | The sweet orange reproduces asexually ( apomixis through nucellar embryony ); varieties of sweet orange arise through mutations.
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| 29. | But others counter that because of the ease of creating hybrids with apomixis, crop variability could actually be increased.
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| 30. | Apomixis would cut the time needed to evaluate new lines, and dramatically reduce the cost of hybrid seed production.
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