Over 600 species of yams belong to the genus Dioscorea but about 10 species are cultivated. Yams are a very important tropical crop, mainly grown in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and South America. On 8.7 million hectares...
Tag - clonal propagation
Juniper Kiss
Arabidopsis halleri: a model system for studying population differentiation and local adaptation
Whilst studies on Arabidopsis thaliana have generally been highly molecular and/or genetic in nature, most studies using A. halleri have addressed adaptation and variation in adaptive traits in the species’ natural...
William Salter
Female sterility and hermaphrodites coexist in Cardamine amara
Tedder et al. report a new putative case of androdioecy in Swiss populations of the Arabidopsis relative, Cardamine amara (Brassicaceae).
botanyone
Flooding and floral variation in a clonal aquatic plant
A report of variation in morph frequencies and floral traits in the tristylous clonal aquatic Eichhornia azurea in the Pantanal wetlands of Brazil.
Population structure and domestication events within Cynara
Globe artichoke and leafy cardoon are two crops belonging to the same species, Cynara cardunculus (Asteraceae). Gatto et al. analyse population structure and genetic relationships between var. scolymus (artichoke), var...
In vitro regeneration of peach palm
Secondary somatic embryogenesis has been postulated to occur during induction of peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) somatic embryogenesis. Steinmacher et al. study this morphogenetic pathway and use zygotic embryos as...
