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Science 22 November 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5291, pp. 1322 - 1323
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5291.1322
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Perspectives

Jean-Phillippe Vielle Calzada, Charles F. Crane, David M. Stelly

Apomixis is an asexual reproductive process in plants whereby seeds that are exact genetic replicas of the maternal genetic material are produced. Vielle Calzada, Crane, and Stelly argue that this process, if understood and harnessed, will revolutionize genetic engineering and seed production for agriculturally important crops.

J.-P. Vielle Calzada is at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor , NY 11724, USA. E-mail: vielle{at}phage.cshl.org. C. F. Crane and D. M. Stelly are in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2474, USA. E-mail: monosom{at}tamu.edu

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