Dear Editor,As Gregor Mendel conducted his groundbreaking crossbreeding experiments with peas that revealed the laws of inheritance(Mendel,1866),he also observed an“essential difference”in the inheritance patterns b...Dear Editor,As Gregor Mendel conducted his groundbreaking crossbreeding experiments with peas that revealed the laws of inheritance(Mendel,1866),he also observed an“essential difference”in the inheritance patterns between“variable hybrids”such as sexual pea and“constant hybrids”like hawkweed(Pilosella piloselloides),which he described in letters to the prominent botanist Carl Nageli(van Dijk and Ellis,2016).Subsequent investigations in hawkweed by Ostenfeld(1904)first revealed the phenomenon of apomixis.展开更多
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文摘Dear Editor,As Gregor Mendel conducted his groundbreaking crossbreeding experiments with peas that revealed the laws of inheritance(Mendel,1866),he also observed an“essential difference”in the inheritance patterns between“variable hybrids”such as sexual pea and“constant hybrids”like hawkweed(Pilosella piloselloides),which he described in letters to the prominent botanist Carl Nageli(van Dijk and Ellis,2016).Subsequent investigations in hawkweed by Ostenfeld(1904)first revealed the phenomenon of apomixis.
