The secondary metabolism of plants delivers a wide range of chemical structures with
application for a vast array of activities, thus offering opportunities for social and economic …

Background Apomixis is an alternative route of plant reproduction that produces individuals
genetically identical to the mother plant through seeds. Apomixis is desirable in agriculture …

DNA methylation is an important, heritable epigenetic modification in most eukaryotic
organisms that is connected with numerous biological processes. To study the impact of …

Main conclusion Apomixis is a complex evolutionary trait with many possible origins. Here
we discuss various clues and causes, ultimately proposing a model harmonizing the three …

Autopolyploidy is widespread in higher plants and plays an important role in the process of
evolution. The present study successfully induced autotetraploidys from Chrysanthemum …

Epigenetic variation, and particularly DNA methylation, is involved in plasticity and
responses to changes in the environment. Conservation biology studies have focused on …

Apomixis, a clonal plant reproduction by seeds, is controlled in Paspalum spp. by a single
locus which is blocked in terms of recombination. Partial sequence analysis of the apomixis …

Background Apomixis is considered an evolutionary deviation of the sexual reproductive
pathway leading to the generation of clonal maternal progenies by seeds. Recent evidence …

Different molecular techniques have been developed to study either the global level of
methylated cytosines or methylation at specific gene sequences. One of them is the …

In previous studies we reported the identification of several AFLP, RAPD and RFLP
molecular markers linked to apospory in Paspalum notatum. The objective of this work was …