Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis.
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- noun Any
apomictic plant ororganism .
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- noun a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Genetic sequences causally associated with the apomictic trait are provided which can be used to convert any sexual plant to an apomict.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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Rational Review 2009
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In 2006, Peggy Ozias-Akins, a molecular geneticist at the University of Georgia in Tifton, and her colleagues focused on fountain grass (Cenchrus squamulatus) — a natural apomict — which looked like a good candidate for containing an apomixis gene5.
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