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Apospory in <i>Sorghum bicolor</i> (L.) Moench

W. W. Hanna, K. F. Schertz, E. C. Bashaw

Science · 1970 · 33 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A line of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench was discovered to reproduce by apospory, a type of apomixis. The formation of an embryo by a nucellar cell without fertilization was establshed by cytological observations of ovaries and by progeny tests.

References

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Inheritance and Control of Obligate Apomixis in Breeding Buffelgrass, <i>Pennisetum ciliare</i><sup>1</sup>

C. M. Taliaferro, E. C. Bashaw · Crop Science · 1966 · 90 citations

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Megasporogenesis, Embryo Sac Development and Embryogenesis in Dallisgrass, <i>Paspalum Dilatatum</i>, Poir<sup>1</sup>

E. C. Bashaw, E. C. Holt · Agronomy Journal · 1958 · 47 citations

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Inheritance of Reaction of <i>Sorghum bicolor</i> (L.) Moench to Toxin Produced by <i>Periconia circinata</i> (Mang.) Sacc.<sup>1</sup>

K. F. Schertz, Y. P. Tai · Crop Science · 1969 · 31 citations

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Observation of Sex Differentiation in sorghum by Use of Induced Male-Sterile Mutants

Z. Barabás · Nature · 1962 · 16 citations

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Apomixis in grain sorghums

N. G. P. Rao, L. L. Narayana · Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The) · 1968 · 15 citations

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