FURTHER EVIDENCE ON THE INHERITANCE OF REPRODUCTIVE MODE IN BRACHIARIA

The most important tropical forages are Brachiaria spp. Existing culti vars are natural, polyploid, aposporous apomicts. Breeding programs se ek to combine attributes from the tetraploid apomicts B. brizantha and B. decumbens. Apomixis is monogenic and dominant. We sought to synthe size an allogomous, sexual, breeding population containing germplasm f rom selected apomicts. Apospory was not detected in a large open-polli nated progeny of sexual hybrids from sexual-by-apomictic crosses.