A team from the CEITEC research centre at Masaryk University in Brno was the first in the world to assemble a complete genome of a plant that can produce seeds without sexual reproduction. It is this ability, the so-called apomixia, that attracts the attention of plant biologists and breeders. Indeed, the offspring of apomictic plants can retain the same combination of traits for generations. CEITEC spokesperson Halina Jílková informed about the…
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A team from the CEITEC research centre at Masaryk University in Brno was the first in the world to assemble a complete genome of a plant that can produce seeds without sexual reproduction. It is this ability, the so-called apomixia, that attracts the attention of plant biologists and breeders. Indeed, the offspring of apomictic plants can retain the same combination of traits for generations. CEITEC spokesperson Halina Jílková informed about the…