The beginnings of apomixis research - an annotated bibliography - Gian Andrea Nogler

Apomixis, the most important reproductive anomaly of higher plants, is asexual formation of embryos and seeds (agamospermia). This results in copies of the mother plant (clones). The two main deviations from the normal, sexual pathway are: (1) Bypassing ¿ meiosis to produce unreduced eggs. Using embryological-cytological methods, which were extremely laborious at the time, various mechanisms were gradually discovered for this; some preserve the alternation of generations (gametophytic apomixis),..