Certain sunflower strains can be induced to form seeds without pollination

PHYSorg
Apr 4, 2025, 9:20 am102 pts
Syngenta Biotechnology China-led research, with partners in the U.S., France, the UK, Chile, the Netherlands, Argentina, and across China, has discovered that sunflowers can form viable haploid seeds through parthenogenesis in the absence of pollination. This discovery opens the possibility of a scalable…

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