45 results about "Apomixis" patented technology

The invention relates to a method for culturing submerged plant seeds. The method comprises the following steps: A, soaking the submerged plant seeds produced by apomixia in 0.01-1wt% of dimethoate or sodium hypochlorite solution for 1-6 hours, washing the soaked submerged plant seeds with clear water, naturally drying the soaked submerged plant seeds in the air; B, standing the submerged plant seeds at 20-25 DEG C for 1-3 days, storing at 1-5 DEG C for 1-2 days, and preserving at 30-40 DEG C for 12-36 hours; C, soaking the submerged plant seeds in solution containing plant hormone, trace elements and inorganic salt for 12-24 hours; and D, burying the submerged plant seeds in a matrix by a depth of 3-5cm, and then putting the matrix in which the submerged plant seeds are buried at the bottom of river or lake water. The matrix comprises humus, sediment at the bottom of river and lake, bank soil, clay and sand. The submerged plant seeds bred by the method have high germination rate and environmental adaptability.

The present invention is directed to the seed-to-seed perpetuation of hybrid vigor and other traits through apomixis (asexual seed formation) in flowering plants (angiosperms). More particularly, to predictable methods for producing, from sexual or facultatively-apomictic plants, progeny plants that express an increased percentage of apomictic seed set or one or more elements of apomixis. This invention uses: plant cyto-embryology procedures to identify and select a plant or group of plants that possess appropriate genetic variability for initiation times and durations of megasporogenesis (female meiosis), embryo sac formation, egg and central cell formation and maturation, fertilization, embryony and endosperm formation; plant breeding procedures to produce numerous and divergent genetically-recombined early to late generation progeny such that embryo sac formation preempts megasporogenesis and embryony preempts fertilization; and plant cyto-embryology or progeny test procedures to select segregant plants that express an increased frequency of one or more elements of apomixis.

Methods are provided for producing apomictic plants from sexual plants divergent with respect to responses to different photoperiods and schedules of megaspore and gametophyte development. A preferred system is to identify divergent lines from within a species or closely related group of species, accentuate the divergence by breeding where necessary, and produce artificial amphiploids that contain genomes from the apposing divergent lines. Apomixis results from the asynchronous expression of female developmental programs induced by combining the reproductively divergent lines. The procedures for manipulating the expression of apomixis described herein permit the development of true-breeding hybrids of various cultivated crops.

The invention provides a new form of vegetative propagating material, referred to as “the grass plantlet”, as well as a method for producing it. The new vegetative planting material and the method by which it is obtained make it possible to replicate and increase both warm and cool season grasses more rapidly than by the conventional methods of seeding, sprigging, or plugging. Three to five new, clean, and pure generations of a newly developed seeded or vegetative cultivar can be obtained each year. Outcrossing, the need for burning and possibly for herbicide use are eliminated by the present invention. The present methodology embodies a sterile production system resulting in grass plantlets that are free of nematodes, pathogenic fungi, and damaging insects. The method of the invention has the capacity to rapidly reproduce and to maintain the genetic purity of promising new cultivars that would otherwise be discarded because they are sterile hybrids, low seed producers, sterile direct DNA transfers, or cross pollinated non-apomicts.

Methods are disclosed for detecting genetic instability for apomixis in angiospermous plant, and for enhancing, genetically stabilizing, and controlling apomixis expression in such plants. Enhanced expression, stabilization, and control are achieved by converting a facultative apomict to obligate apomixis. Enhanced expression of apomixis is further achieved by increasing frequencies of unreduced egg formation and/or parthenogenesis. Genetic stabilization of apomixis is alternatively achieved by conferring mechanisms to a facultative apomict that, during facultative sexual seed formation, prevent the segregational loss of unique alleles at multiple loci, which cause apomixis, such that progeny produced sexually from the facultative apomict inherit the unique allelic combinations required to maintain apomixis. The disclosed methods are used in various combinations to produce apomictic plants that possess improved yield, quality, and/or seed production characteristics.

The present invention relates to DYAD genes, mutants thereof, and use of them for making plants that retain heterozygosity of the female parent plant. The invention also encompasses plants, plant tissues, and seeds of plants that have a dyad phenotype and so retain heterozygosity of the female parent, either constitutively or conditionally. The invention is useful for propagating desired hybrid phenotypes in a manner of an apomictic plant and for increasing the ploidy of a plant genotype, which may result in plants having increased biomass.

The invention provides a rapid breeding method of the seed of konjac, namely a method for sexual reproduction through apomixis, thus the seed of konjac is a small bulb. The reproduction rate of konjacseed bulbs is not more than 5-7 times in the way of digging big and staying small and large bulb-cutting propagation. According to the rapid breeding method of the seed of konjac, a seed bulb can breed 800-1500 seed bulbs, and the reproduction ratio is close to 1500 times, so that the problem of low breeding coefficient and degradation of seed source in konjac industry is solved. The rapid breeding method of the seed of konjac has the advantages of high breeding efficiency, keeping seed character, preventing and controlling seed source degeneration, fast breeding of konjac bulbs for farmers to grow, thereby producing more konjac bulbs to meet the market needs.

The invention discloses a method for screening dwarf apple stocks by the aid of reverse genetics and belongs to the technical field of apple breeding. The method includes: subjecting Pingyi sweet-teaseeds with an apomixes feature to Co60 radiation mutation; sowing mutated seeds; screening offspring with a dwarfing trait in group offspring and subjecting the offspring to exogenous GA treatment; screening the offspring insensitive to GA; through MhGAI1 antibody detection, performing screening to obtain DELLA mutants. Through the radiation mutation method, specific antibodies for Pingyi sweet tea subjected to radiation mutation are detected by the aid of the reverse genetics for the first time, plants insensitive to GA are screened, and genetic resources with the dwarf trait and capable of keeping apomixes capacity at the same time are further screened.

The invention discloses a method for enabling sexual corns to generate dominant and recessive apomictic hybrids. Red spike-stalk self-fruited 4317 facultative apomict corns serving as a male parent are hybridized with sexual corns chang 72, 7131, 7132 and 478 of which white spike-stalks cannot be self-fruited and sexual corns 7133 of which red spike-stalks cannot be self-fruited; F1 can generate dominant apomictic hybrids of which the white spike-stalks can be self-fruited and sexual hybrids of which the red spike-stalks cannot be self-fruited as well as dominant apomictic hybrids of which red spike-stalks can be self-fruited and sexual hybrids of which the red spike-stalks cannot be self-fruited; after the sexual hybrids are subjected to selfing, F2 can separate out recessive apomictic hybrids of which light red spike-stalks or red spike-stalks can be self-fruited after the selfing of sexual hybrids. The dominant apomictic hybrids are high in self-fruiting rate, and generations cannot be separated; the dominant apomictic hybrids are main male parents for cultivating unseparated hybrids; the recessive apomictic hybrids are relatively low in self-fruiting rate and relatively poor in purity, and can be also used as basic materials for cultivating the unseparated hybrids through planting separation.

Methods are provided for producing apomictic plants from sexual plants divergent with respect to responses to different photoperiods and schedules of megaspore and gametophyte development. A preferred system is to identify divergent lines from within a species or closely related group of species, accentuate the divergence by breeding where necessary, and produce artificial amphiploids that contain genomes from the apposing divergent lines. Apomixis results from the asynchronous expression of female developmental programs induced by combining the reproductively divergent lines. The procedures for manipulating the expression of apomixis described herein permit the development of true-breeding hybrids of various cultivated crops.

A breeding method based on distant hybridization and polyploid features that the parents for hydridization, which can increase the hybridization affinity, decrease the progeny sterility and have no special mictic and pH genes, are chosen, after plyploid induction and discrimination the hybrids between subunits, between varieties and between varieties with same or different genomes to obtain polyploid rice variety, and the characteristics of male sterility and male restoring gene are used to obtain hybridized polyploid rice. Its advantage is high yield increased by times.

The present invention is directed to the seed-to-seed perpetuation of hybrid vigor and other traits through apomixis (asexual seed formation) in flowering plants (angiosperms). More particularly, to predictable methods for producing, from sexual or facultatively-apomictic plants, progeny plants that express an increased percentage of apomictic seed set or one or more elements of apomixis. This invention uses: plant cytoembryology procedures to identify and select a plant or group of plants that possess appropriate genetic variability for initiation times and durations of megasporogenesis (female meiosis), embryo sac formation, egg and central cell formation and maturation, fertilization, embryony and endosperm formation; plant breeding procedures to produce numerous and divergent genetically-recombined early to late generation progeny such that embryo sac formation preempts megasporogenesis and embryony preempts fertilization; and plant cyto-embryology or progeny test procedures to select segregant plants that express an increased frequency of one or more elements of apomixis.

The invention relates to the use of a gene of the Argonaute family, a transcript of said gene or the ORF of said gene in order to produce plants that are completely or partially apomictic. The invention can be used to control apomixis in cultivated species having sexual reproduction.