Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Exploitation of apomixis in crop improvement

• The use of apomixis in crops in a follow-up process, after a variety or hybrid is evolved, as reflected by the benefits it renders. Therefore, our aim in this section is to deal with only apomixis as a tool to plant breeding. With a view to exploit apomixis in sexual crops, it needs to detect and identify an apomictic phenomenon, occurring spontaneously in any plant, or, to incorporate it artificially, perhaps through hybridization between apomicts and amphimicts.