• Genetic transfer from several apomictic tetraploid paspalum species to an elite group of sexual plants 

      Novo, Patricia Elda; Acuña, Carlos Alberto; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Galdeano, Florencia; Espinoza, Francisco; Quarin, Camilo Luis (Crop Science Society of America, 2020)
      Basic findings from classical genetic studies are available for exploiting apomixis in the breeding of several forage grass genera. Most Paspalum species are multi- ploid with a sexual diploid cytotype and conspecific ...
    • Hybridization and heterosis in the plicatula group of paspalum 

      Novo, Patricia Elda; Acuña, Carlos Alberto; Quarin, Camilo Luis; Urbani, Mario Hugo; Marcón, Florencia; Espinoza, Francisco (Springer, 2017)
      Most forage cultivars released for thegenus Paspalum belong to a section named Plicatula.The species of Plicatula are mostly apomictic andconsequently the genetic diversity is locked for theirgeneticimprovement. The ...
    • Interspecific hybrids between Paspalum plicatulum and P. oteroi: a key tool for forage breeding 

      Novo, Patricia Elda; Montenegro Valls, José Francisco; Galdeano, Florencia; Honfi, Ana Isabel; Espinoza, Francisco; Quarin, Camilo Luis (Universidade de São Paulo, 2016-08)
      Grama-tio-pedro (Paspalum oteroi Swallen) is a rare stoloniferous grass of the Plicatula group of Paspalum, well adapted to continuous grazing in areas subject to seasonal flooding in the Pantanal region, in central western ...