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Science 16 October 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3955, pp. 338 - 339
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3955.338
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Apospory in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

W. W. Hanna 1, K. F. Schertz 2, and E. C. Bashaw 2

1 Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843
2 Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, College Station, Texas 77843

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.


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