CYTOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF NATIVE APOMICTIC BUFFELGRASS, PENNISETUM-CILIARE (L) LINK Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Although most native buffelgrass ecotypes are obligate apomicts, reproductive studies showed evidence for sexual reproduction (facultative apomixis) in each of five accessions chosen for a hybridization study. The extreme morphological diversity is explained by the limited sexual reproduction. Highly apomictic divergent morphotypes could colonize large areas and easily be mistaken for different species. -from Authors

published proceedings

  • BOTANICAL GAZETTE

author list (cited authors)

  • HIGNIGHT, K. W., BASHAW, E. C., & HUSSEY, M. A.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • HIGNIGHT, KW||BASHAW, EC||HUSSEY, MA

publication date

  • January 1991