An international team has succeeded in propagating a commercial hybrid rice strain as a clone through seeds with 95 percent efficiency. This could lower the cost of hybrid rice seed, making ...

Although reproductive cloning in mammals is a recent innovation 1, the cloning of crop plants has been done for centuries. Two asexual (clonal) reproductive strategies are commonly found in plants: ...

Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization - developing or producing without sexual union. Apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization developing or producing without sexual ...

The development of synthetic apomixis enables the fixation of heterosis, which is a breakthrough that promises to transform conventional hybrid breeding strategies and trigger a new wave of green ...

Scientists are working to develop apomictic varieties of crops that rely on self-cloning and can reproduce without the need for pollination. In the world of agriculture, hybrid vigor is a well-known ...

Caption In hybrid rice breeding, sexual reproduction causes heterosis decay due to meiotic recombination. The Fix4 synthetic apomixis system, established entirely via genome editing technology ...

An hour outside of Mexico City, the taxi turns off the main road, and the noise and bustle of the highway fade away. Past a steel gate and a white guardhouse, we enter the well-tended grounds of the ...

The Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $5 million to Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan and colleagues in India to expand self-cloning seed technology to crops that are popular in India but not ...

Hyderabad: Scientists at the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology are working on the Apomixis method of seed production. Apomixis results to the formation of asexual seeds in plants ...

A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...