Determining Genome Size from Spores of Seedless Vascular Plants Authors: Li-Yaung Kuo and
Yao-Moan Huang ,
date: 06/05/2017,
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Q&A: 0 Seedless vascular plants, including ferns and lycophytes, produce spores to initiate the gametophyte stage and to complete sexual reproduction. Approximately 10% of them are apomictic through the production of genomic unreduced spores. Being able to measure the spore nuclear DNA content is therefore important to infer their reproduction mode. Here we present a protocol of spore flow cytometry that allows an efficient determination of the reproductive modes of seedless vascular plants.