ArticleGenes2020
Can We Use Gene-Editing to Induce Apomixis in Sexual Plants?
Article in Genes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Deep learning based attention enhanced phylogenetic radial basis function networks (AE-PRBFN) for genomic codon usage classification across species.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Basis of apomixis in flowering plants - state of the art and research perspectives.Plant reproduction · 2026Review
- New Frontiers in Potato Breeding: Tinkering with Reproductive Genes and Apomixis.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Identification of IPT9 in Brachiaria brizantha (syn. Urochloa brizantha) and expression analyses during ovule development in sexual and apomictic plants.Molecular biology reports · 2023Article
- Trends in Apomixis Research: The 10 Most Cited Research Articles Published in the Pregenomic and Genomic Eras.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Molecular Basis of Apomixis in Plants.Genes · 2021Article
- Genetic Transformation of Apomictic Grasses: Progress and Constraints.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
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Abstract
Apomixis, the asexual formation of seeds, is a potentially valuable agricultural trait. Inducing apomixis in sexual crop plants would, for example, allow breeders to fix heterosis in hybrid seeds and rapidly generate doubled haploid crop lines. Molecular models explain the emergence of functional apomixis, i.e., apomeiosis + parthenogenesis + endosperm development, as resulting from a combination of genetic or epigenetic changes that coordinate altered molecular and developmental steps to form clonal seeds. Apomixis-like features and synthetic clonal seeds have been induced with limited success in the sexual plants rice and maize by using gene editing to mutate genes related to meiosis and fertility or via egg-cell specific expression of embryogenesis genes. Inducing functional apomixis and increasing the penetrance of apomictic seed production will be important for commercial deployment of the trait. Optimizing the induction of apomixis with gene editing strategies that use known targets as well as identifying alternative targets will be possible by better understanding natural genetic variation in apomictic species. With the growing availability of genomic data and precise gene editing tools, we are making substantial progress towards engineering apomictic crops.
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