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SUBMITTER: Mieulet D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5099866 | biostudies-other | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Mieulet Delphine D Jolivet Sylvie S Rivard Maud M Cromer Laurence L Vernet Aurore A Mayonove Pauline P Pereira Lucie L Droc Gaëtan G Courtois Brigitte B Guiderdoni Emmanuel E Mercier Raphael R
Cell research 20161021 11
Introduction of clonal reproduction through seeds (apomixis) in crops has the potential to revolutionize agriculture by allowing self-propagation of any elite variety, in particular F1 hybrids. In the sexual model plant Arabidopsis thaliana synthetic clonal reproduction through seeds can be artificially implemented by (i) combining three mutations to turn meiosis into mitosis (MiMe) and (ii) crossing the obtained clonal gametes with a line expressing modified CENH3 and whose genome is eliminated ...[more]