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SUBMITTER: Plachno BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653734 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Płachno Bartosz J BJ Świątek Piotr P Kozieradzka-Kiszkurno Małgorzata M Szeląg Zbigniew Z Stolarczyk Piotr P
Protoplasma 20170515 6
Members of the genera Hieracium and Pilosella are model plants that are used to study the mechanisms of apomixis. In order to have a proper understanding of apomixis, knowledge about the relationship between the maternal tissue and the gametophyte is needed. In the genus Pilosella, previous authors have described the specific process of the "liquefaction" of the integument cells that surround the embryo sac. However, these observations were based on data only at the light microscopy level. The m ...[more]