Asexual reproduction in a close relative of Arabidopsis: A genetic investigation of apomixis in Boechera (Brassicaceae)

New Phytologist

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 425-438

  Schranz, M Eric ^a,c   Kantama, Laksana ^b   De Jong, Hans ^b   Mitchell Olds, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apomixis; Boechera (Brassicaceae); Genome painting; Heterochromatic chromosome; Interspecific hybridization; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PLANT BREEDING; POLYPLOIDY; SEED PRODUCTION; TRANSMISSIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BRASSICACEAE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; KARYOTYPING; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT SEED; PLOIDY; POLLEN;

BRASSICACEAE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; KARYOTYPING; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PLOIDIES; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BOECHERA; BOECHERA DIVARICARPA; BOECHERA STRICTA; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 33745205611     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01765.x     Document Type: Article

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