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Synthetic Seed for Clonal Production of Crop Plants1

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Recent Advances in the Development and Germination of Seeds

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 187))

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Seed is the preferred planting vehicle for all crop plants due to ease of production and handling. For many crops (e.g. cereals, soybean etc.), genetically similar seed can be generated by self-pollination whereas, for others, uniform seed cannot be produced due to genetic self-incompatibilities as well as a variety of other reasons. In these latter instances, plants are propagated either vegetatively (e.g. fruit crops) or by genetically nonuniform seed (e.g. forage grasses). Even with self-pollinated crops, plants from different seeds are not genetically identical since they are subject to meiotic recombination during sexual reproduction (exceptions are crops that produce seed apomictically). Thus, elaborate and time consuming breeding systems have been developed in order to exploit hybrid vigor while maintaining seed uniformity.

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  1. Central Florida Research and Education Center Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 5336 University Avenue, Leesburg, FL, 34748, USA

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    Raymond B. Taylorson

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Gray, D.J. (1989). Synthetic Seed for Clonal Production of Crop Plants1 . In: Taylorson, R.B. (eds) Recent Advances in the Development and Germination of Seeds. NATO ASI Series, vol 187. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0617-7_4

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