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In current article Boechera gunnisoniana is described as "diploid ... which probably reproduces sexually" (with refference to: Rollins, R. C. 1941. A monographic study of Arabis in western North America. Rhodora 43:289-325, 347-411, 425-481).
However, in a number of cyto-embryological investigations this species is referred to as near-obligate apomictic triploid:
Roy, B.A. 1995. The breeding systems of six species of Arabis (Brassicaceae). Am. J. Bot. 82: 869–877.
Taşkin K. M., Turgut K., Scott R. J. 2004. Apomictic development in Arabis gunnisoniana. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 52: 155–160.
Taşkin K. M., Turgut K., Scott R. J. 2009. Apomeiotic pollen mother cell development in the apomictic Boechera species // Biologia plantarum. 53 (3): 468-474.
Schmidt A., Schmid M.W., Klostermeier U.C., Qi W., Gutho D., Sailer C., Waller M., Rosenstiel P., Grossniklaus U. 2014. Apomictic and Sexual Germline Development Differ with Respect to Cell Cycle, Transcriptional, Hormonal and Epigenetic Regulation. PLOS Genetics www.plosgenetics.org, Vol. 10, Issue 7, e1004476.
So, where is the truth?
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