This should allow them to work out which of those genes are involved in suppressing meiosis.

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Abolish meiosis and a plant may be able to produce viable seeds without having them fertilised.

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And it may be possible to engineer a genetic switch, known as an inducible promoter, into the crop, along with the anti-meiosis genes.

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Late in my life, I was hired by a lab at Cornell University as support staff doing research into the molecular components of meiosis, using transgenic mice.

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Apomixis blocks a process called meiosis.

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