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Pseudogamy

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pseudogamy

[sü′däg·ə·mē]
(biology)
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pseudogamy

 

in angiospermous plants, the formation of an embryo in a seed without fertilization but with stimulation by the contents of the pollen tube that penetrates the embryo sac. The seed’s endosperm, which provides nutrients to the embryo, usually forms only after the spermatozoid fuses with the polar nuclei of the embryo sac. Pseudogamy is characteristic of many species of meadowgrass, cinquefoil, blackberry, and buttercup.

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The grass reproduces primarily by apomixis, with the mechanism being apospory followed by pseudogamy (Fisher et al., 1954; Snyder et al., 1955).
Iatipinna for gynogenesis (pseudogamy); that is, the sperm is needed for physiological triggering an apparent parthenogenesis (for review, see Turner 1982).
The predominant form of apomictic reproduction in Tripsacum is characterized as being diplosporous pseudogamy of the Antennaria type [Anennaria alpina (L.) Garrtner] (Burson et al, 1990, Leblanc et al., 1995); however, an infrequent Taraxacum Wigg.
While backcrossing attempts with these highly sterile [B.sub.III] hybrids have resulted in several B[C.sub.1] plants (Liu et al., 1994; Wang and Carman, 1995, unpublished data), none has provided clear evidence of pseudogamy. Apparently, the genes responsible for apomixis in E.
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