Apomixis: Evolution, Mechanisms and Perspectives. 2007. (Regnum Vegetabile, 147). illus.(b/w & col.). 424 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. (ISBN 978-3-906166-60-5)

Contents: INTRODUCTION/ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY and GENETIC CONTROL of APOMIXIS ( Nogler,G.: The discovery of parthogenesis: a long journey to the truth/ Curtis,M. & U. Grossniklaus: Amphimixis and apomixis: two sides of the same coin!/ Carman, J. G.: Do duplicate genes causeapomixis?/ Albertini, E. & G. Barcaccia: A review on apomeiosis in Poa pretensis L. and Medicago sativa L. mutants/ Ozias - Atkins, P.,J. A. Conner, S. Goel, Y. Akiyama & W. W. Hanna: Genes linked with apomixis: identification and characterization/ Calderini, O., S. B.Chang, H. de Jong, A. Bietta, S. Arcioni, M. E. Caceres, C. L. Quarin,D. H. Hojsgaard, I. S. Donnison and F. Pupilli: Molecular cytogeneticsof the apomixis controlling locus in Paspalum simplex/ Vijverberg, K.and P. J. van Dijk: Genetic linkage mapping of apomixis loci/ Matzk,F.,S. Prodanovic, A. Czihal, J. Tiedemann, F. Arzenton, F. Blattner,J. Kumlehn, L. Altschmied, I. Schubert, A. Johnston, U. Grossniklaus,H. Bäumlein: Genetic control of apomixis: preliminary lessons from Poa,Hypericum and wheat egg cells)/ MAINTENANCE AND SPREAD OF APOMIXISIN NATURAL POPULATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGYHörandel, E. and O. Paun: Patterns and sources of genetic diversityin apomictic plants: implications for evolutionary potentias/ Mogie, M.,N. F. Britton and J. A. Stewart - Cox: Asexuality, polyploidy and the male function/ Van Dijk,P. J.: Potential and realized costs of sex in dandelions, taraxacum officinale s.l./ Voigt, M. - L., M. Melzer,T. Rutten, T. Mitchell - Olds and T. F. Sharbel: Gametogenesis in the apomictic Boechera holboellii complex: the male perspective/ Baraccia,G., H. Bäumlein and T. F. Sharbel: Apomixis in St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum L.): an overview and glimpse towards the future/Nybom, H.: Unique reproduction in dogroses (Rosa sect. Caninae)maintains successful and highly heterozygous genotypes)/ EVOLUTION OFAPOMICTIC COMPLEXES (Talent, N. and T. Dickinson: Apomixis and hybridization in Rosaceae subtribe Pyrinae Dumort.: a new tool promises new insights/ Bayer, R.J. and. T. Chandler: Evolution of polyploid agamic complexes: a case study using the Catipes group of Antennaria, including the A. rosea complex (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae)/Noyes, R. D.: The evolutionary genetics of apomixis in Erigeron sect.Phalacroloma (Asteraceae)/ Fehrer, J., A. Krahulcova, J. Chrtek Jr.,Rosenbaumova, R. and S. Bräutigam: Evolutionary aspects in Hieracium subgenus Pilosella/ Dobes,C., M. Koch and C. Kiefer: Apomixis and radiation at low ploidy levels exemplified in the evolutionary model genus Boechera (Brassicaceae)/ INDEX. - 'Apomixis is no longer regarded as a 'blind alley' of evolution, but rather as an alternative mechanism to the predominant sexual pathway, and that needs to bee xplored in many details to fully understand its role in nature' (Quote from the preface of the book).