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4 days agoSexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food
If the trial is a success, each plant will bypass sexual reproduction and will set seed to thousands of clones in each flower head. The Hy-Gain sorghum trial is the culmination of decades of work for plant physiologist Anna Koltunow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who began research to make 'sexless seeds' in the early 1990s. The technology exploits a quirk of nature - known as apomixis.
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