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