Apomixis 🤩 #plantscience
Nature reports on the development of “sexless seeds,” which are crops that seed their own clones and have a host of benefits for farmers. #plantscience 🧪
Is this the future of food? 'Sexless' seeds that could transform farming
Scientists are tinkering with plant genes to create crops that seed their own clones, with a host of benefits for farmers.
go.nature.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Apomixis 🤩 #plantscience
Day 1: Alamosaurus taraxacum
This newly discovered species has been shown to reproduce asexually via apomixis, a feat previously thought impossible for such a Titanosaur.
#maysozoic #paleoart
This newly discovered species has been shown to reproduce asexually via apomixis, a feat previously thought impossible for such a Titanosaur.
#maysozoic #paleoart
May 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Day 1: Alamosaurus taraxacum
This newly discovered species has been shown to reproduce asexually via apomixis, a feat previously thought impossible for such a Titanosaur.
#maysozoic #paleoart
This newly discovered species has been shown to reproduce asexually via apomixis, a feat previously thought impossible for such a Titanosaur.
#maysozoic #paleoart
Our new review article “To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis” is now published open access in @theplantjournal.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @ribesresearch.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @ribesresearch.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our new review article “To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis” is now published open access in @theplantjournal.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @ribesresearch.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @ribesresearch.bsky.social
🌾From Apomixis: Researchers have engineered rice plants that clone themselves from seed, preserving hybrid vigor across generations, a major step toward true synthetic apomixis. (Imtiyaz Khanday, Venkatesan Sundaresan)
▶️ link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#PlantScience #Agriculture
▶️ link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#PlantScience #Agriculture
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🌾From Apomixis: Researchers have engineered rice plants that clone themselves from seed, preserving hybrid vigor across generations, a major step toward true synthetic apomixis. (Imtiyaz Khanday, Venkatesan Sundaresan)
▶️ link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#PlantScience #Agriculture
▶️ link.springer.com/protocol/10....
#PlantScience #Agriculture
#Efeméride La botánica Irene Manton (1904-1988) nació un 17 de abril.
Estudió fundamentalmente los helechos –hibridación, poliploidía y apomixis [Problems of cytology and evolution in the pteridophyta, 1950] y las algas.
Estudió fundamentalmente los helechos –hibridación, poliploidía y apomixis [Problems of cytology and evolution in the pteridophyta, 1950] y las algas.
Irene Manton, botánica - Mujeres con ciencia
Irene Manton. Botánica. Helechos. Hibridación. Poliploidía. Apomixis. Problems of cytology and evolution in the pteridophyta. Algas. Linnean Society Londres
mujeresconciencia.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#Efeméride La botánica Irene Manton (1904-1988) nació un 17 de abril.
Estudió fundamentalmente los helechos –hibridación, poliploidía y apomixis [Problems of cytology and evolution in the pteridophyta, 1950] y las algas.
Estudió fundamentalmente los helechos –hibridación, poliploidía y apomixis [Problems of cytology and evolution in the pteridophyta, 1950] y las algas.
🤓 The gardening word of the day is [Apomixis]:
A form of asexual reproduction where seeds are produced without fertilization.
A form of asexual reproduction where seeds are produced without fertilization.
April 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
🤓 The gardening word of the day is [Apomixis]:
A form of asexual reproduction where seeds are produced without fertilization.
A form of asexual reproduction where seeds are produced without fertilization.
In addition to sexual reproduction, the dandelion can also reproduce asexually.Through apomixis, it produces clones that are genetically identical to the mother plant.This phase is characterized by the blooming of the characteristic yellow flower, which in turn produces seeds for the next generation
May 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In addition to sexual reproduction, the dandelion can also reproduce asexually.Through apomixis, it produces clones that are genetically identical to the mother plant.This phase is characterized by the blooming of the characteristic yellow flower, which in turn produces seeds for the next generation
➡️ Engineering high-frequency apomixis with normal seed production in hybrid rice 🌾🌾
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November 30, 2024 at 9:00 PM
➡️ Engineering high-frequency apomixis with normal seed production in hybrid rice 🌾🌾
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
📖 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰📚
To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70054
by Heidemann, Primetis, Zahn & Underwood @ribesresearch.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
Advances+challenges+potential in apomixis
To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70054
by Heidemann, Primetis, Zahn & Underwood @ribesresearch.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
Advances+challenges+potential in apomixis
To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis
Most plant species reproduce by sex but a small, phylogenetically diverse group of species can clone themselves through seeds by apomixis. The engineering of apomixis in hybrid crops has revolutionar...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰📚
To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70054
by Heidemann, Primetis, Zahn & Underwood @ribesresearch.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
Advances+challenges+potential in apomixis
To infinity and beyond: recent progress, bottlenecks, and potential of clonal seeds by apomixis
👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70054
by Heidemann, Primetis, Zahn & Underwood @ribesresearch.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social
Advances+challenges+potential in apomixis
SeedWorld article about apomixis for plant breeding: Big Steps Towards Plant Breeding’s Holy Grail: Apomixis. An interview with Mary Gehring of MIT and KeyGene's Rik Op den Camp about the progress, genetics and perspectives for variety development
www.seedworld.com/big-steps-to...
www.seedworld.com/big-steps-to...
Big Steps Towards Plant Breeding’s Holy Grail: Apomixis - Seed World US
While apomixis has been pursued by plant breeders for decades, it has until now been far out of reach. Several major research breakthroughs recently, however, mean apomixis is much closer than ever t...
www.seedworld.com
November 23, 2023 at 12:46 PM
SeedWorld article about apomixis for plant breeding: Big Steps Towards Plant Breeding’s Holy Grail: Apomixis. An interview with Mary Gehring of MIT and KeyGene's Rik Op den Camp about the progress, genetics and perspectives for variety development
www.seedworld.com/big-steps-to...
www.seedworld.com/big-steps-to...
🌺 Check the newly published review ‘Apomixis and the paradox of sex in plants’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Elvira Hörandl (1/8)
👉 botany.fyi/rjznsa
#AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience #EvolutionaryBiology
👉 botany.fyi/rjznsa
#AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience #EvolutionaryBiology
June 11, 2024 at 12:03 PM
🌺 Check the newly published review ‘Apomixis and the paradox of sex in plants’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Elvira Hörandl (1/8)
👉 botany.fyi/rjznsa
#AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience #EvolutionaryBiology
👉 botany.fyi/rjznsa
#AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience #EvolutionaryBiology
Congratulations to PhD student Ana Catarina Silva — winner of Best Poster at APOMIXIS 2025! 🏆🎉
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Congratulations to PhD student Ana Catarina Silva — winner of Best Poster at APOMIXIS 2025! 🏆🎉
As Goldilocks Buttercup, Ranunculus auricomus, is apomictic it doesn't need showy flowers to attract pollinators, this one already showing acene formation. From an ancient wood near #Cambridge. #Apomixis #Botany
April 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As Goldilocks Buttercup, Ranunculus auricomus, is apomictic it doesn't need showy flowers to attract pollinators, this one already showing acene formation. From an ancient wood near #Cambridge. #Apomixis #Botany
New apomixis development! The hawkweed PARTHENOGENESIS gene can trigger embryogenesis and clonal reproduction in hybrid rice plants! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extending Mendel's legacy: the application of hawkweed PpPAR for inducing synthetic apomixis in hybrid rice
www.sciencedirect.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New apomixis development! The hawkweed PARTHENOGENESIS gene can trigger embryogenesis and clonal reproduction in hybrid rice plants! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Turning meiosis into mitosis in allotetraploid Brassica napus.
From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A simplified MiMe for producing clonal gametes to enable synthetic apomixis in allotetraploid Brassica napus
Synthetic apomixis has been established in Arabidopsis and rice by combining MiMe that produces clonal unreduced gametes with the factors inducing parthenogenesis or haploids. The MiMe requires the si...
www.biorxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Turning meiosis into mitosis in allotetraploid Brassica napus.
From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Looking forward to discuss latest results on Apomixis at the 5th international Apomixis conference in Montpellier this week: www.alphavisa.com/apomixis/2025/
September 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Looking forward to discuss latest results on Apomixis at the 5th international Apomixis conference in Montpellier this week: www.alphavisa.com/apomixis/2025/
Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
February 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Join us on Wednesday, February 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month we have @cherrityg.bsky.social on apomixis and polyploidy in Malus and Christoph Rosche on herbarium specimens and invasive Centaurea! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb
Turns out we can harness apomixis to develop self-reproducing sorghum hybrids. Our newly published paper with Corteva Agriscience @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Turns out we can harness apomixis to develop self-reproducing sorghum hybrids. Our newly published paper with Corteva Agriscience @cortevaagriscience.bsky.social
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Paper available in Plant Biotechnology Journal today: doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 🧪
Apomixis in Boechera isn't a quirk—it’s driven by fragile genomic sites, B chromosomes, and chromosome fissions.
Key takeaway: Evolution is reusing these fragile regions repeatedly to trigger apomixis. Not just dosage, but structural evolution! #PlantSci #Evolution #Genetics #PAG33
Key takeaway: Evolution is reusing these fragile regions repeatedly to trigger apomixis. Not just dosage, but structural evolution! #PlantSci #Evolution #Genetics #PAG33
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Apomixis in Boechera isn't a quirk—it’s driven by fragile genomic sites, B chromosomes, and chromosome fissions.
Key takeaway: Evolution is reusing these fragile regions repeatedly to trigger apomixis. Not just dosage, but structural evolution! #PlantSci #Evolution #Genetics #PAG33
Key takeaway: Evolution is reusing these fragile regions repeatedly to trigger apomixis. Not just dosage, but structural evolution! #PlantSci #Evolution #Genetics #PAG33
Another gene (a sperm specific transcription factor) was found to induce parthenogenesis in rice when ectopically expressed in the egg cell. I can't find the gene ID in the preprint though.
"Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set"
(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
"Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set"
(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set
Apomixis, a form of clonal seed reproduction, offers a transformative approach to agriculture by enabling the stable fixation of hybrid vigor and elite heterozygosity across generations. However, the ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Another gene (a sperm specific transcription factor) was found to induce parthenogenesis in rice when ectopically expressed in the egg cell. I can't find the gene ID in the preprint though.
"Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set"
(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
"Fixing Hybrid Rice: >99% Efficient Apomixis with Near-Normal Seed Set"
(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
Another gloomy day here in the Sx High Weald so here is an anti gloom Taraxacum (its parent would have been exactly the same - that’s apomixis for you.) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 3, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Another gloomy day here in the Sx High Weald so here is an anti gloom Taraxacum (its parent would have been exactly the same - that’s apomixis for you.) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Lo que ocurre es que los cítricos son capaces de reproducirse de forma asexual mediante apomixis o agamospermia, creando semillas viables y por tanto clones de la planta madre, por lo que las características de la planta híbrida se mantienen.
March 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Lo que ocurre es que los cítricos son capaces de reproducirse de forma asexual mediante apomixis o agamospermia, creando semillas viables y por tanto clones de la planta madre, por lo que las características de la planta híbrida se mantienen.
New News & Views: "Breaking the apomixis trade-off" rdcu.be/zwkmkDh2S9Ta
A sperm cell-specific TF, HUAXU, can trigger fertilization-independent embryogenesis when coupled with clonal gametogenesis, achieving near-complete clonal seed production in hybrid rice. #PlantScience
A sperm cell-specific TF, HUAXU, can trigger fertilization-independent embryogenesis when coupled with clonal gametogenesis, achieving near-complete clonal seed production in hybrid rice. #PlantScience
September 2, 2026 at 10:24 AM
New News & Views: "Breaking the apomixis trade-off" rdcu.be/zwkmkDh2S9Ta
A sperm cell-specific TF, HUAXU, can trigger fertilization-independent embryogenesis when coupled with clonal gametogenesis, achieving near-complete clonal seed production in hybrid rice. #PlantScience
A sperm cell-specific TF, HUAXU, can trigger fertilization-independent embryogenesis when coupled with clonal gametogenesis, achieving near-complete clonal seed production in hybrid rice. #PlantScience