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BREEDING improved varieties of apomictic species is complicated by the problem of hybridizing plants and thereby recombining desirable characteristics, and by the possibility that many otherwise desirable hybrids will reproduce sexually.
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HANSON, A., JUSKA, F. A ‘Progressive’ Mutation induced in Poa pratensis L. by Ionizing Radiation. Nature 184, 1000–1001 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841000a0
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