Claim · model-written summary
Apomictic Eulaliopsis binata retained sexual reproduction to some degree.
- Taxon
- Eulaliopsis binata
Eulaliopsis binatat0 - Outcome
- conserved sexual reproduction to a certain degreee0
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Verbatim
e0“apomictic E. binata has conserved sexual reproduction to a certain degree”
t0“Eulaliopsis binata”
Title
Sexual reproduction development in apomictic Eulaliopsis binata (Poaceae)
L. Liu; J.J. Li; Y.D. Ouyang; et al. Genetics and Molecular Research 2011. doi:10.4238/2011.october.5.3
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Sexual reproduction initiated in 86.8 to 96.8% of ovules.
- Observation Only 2-3% of mature embryo sacs were polygonum-type sexual embryo sacs.
- Observation Callose was absent from aposporous initial cell walls.
- Observation Aposporous initial cells differentiated before and after megaspore mother cell meiosis.
- Observation The sexual embryo sac degenerated at the megaspore stage.
- Observation Some seeds had a 2C:3C embryo-to-endosperm DNA content ratio.