New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Breeding systems in the grasses: a survey

H. E. Connor

Botany Division, DSIR, Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract The grasses, a family of about 700 genera and 10 000 species, display a range of breeding systems from dioecism at one extreme, to autonomous apomixis at another. Between these points are systems common to flowering plants as a whole: self-incompatibility but with a specialised two-gene system, protogyny, self-compatibility, cleistogamy including subterranean cleistogenes, and various grades of monoecism and dioecism. Significant absences are heterostyly, and sporophytic control in incompatibility.

New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1979, Vol. 17:547-74

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