apomictic

apomictic (comparative more apomictic, superlative most apomictic)

1. (botany, zoology) Of, pertaining to, or characterised by apomixis.
   • 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality‎:

     I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974).

   • 1990, E. C. Bashaw, Wayne W. Hanna, 5: Apomictic reproduction, Geoffrey Peter Chapman (editor), Reproductive Versatility in the Grasses, Cambridge University Press, page 115,

     Successful breeding of apomictic species is a relatively recent achievement and thus far only a few artificially bred cultivars of any apomictic crop have been released. For many years the only source of cultivars of apomictic species was selection and increase of the best natural apomictic ecotypes.

   • 2001, Julien Berthaud, Chapter 2: Apomixis and the Management of Genetic Diversity, Yves Savidan, John G. Carman, Thomas Dresselhaus (editors), The Flowering of Apomixis: From Mechanisms to Genetic Engineering, CIMMYT, page 20,

     The first generation hybrid between teosinte (sexual, aa) and apomictic maize (AA) would be apomictic (Aa), and BC₁ plants with teosinte as female would produce Aa (apomictic) and aa (sexual) progeny.

• sexual