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Not Like Dad, a breakthrough publication in The EMBO Journal

Haploid inducers are nowadays powerful breeding tools, but as yet the technology is restricted to maize, while in-vitro haploid induction in certain crops is labor-intense. Widiez and his team, in collaboration with Limagrain, have now identified the gene that mainly causes the phenomenon and termed it Not Like Dad to highlight the fact that its dysfunction induces embryos without genetic contribution from the father. The gene product is necessary for successful fertilization so that its failure promotes the formation of haploid embryos.

Laurine M Gilles et al Loss of pollen-specific phospholipase Not Like Dad (NLD) triggers gynogenesis in maize, The EMBO Journal (2017) e201796603

Read the paper : doi : 10.15252/embj.201694969
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