= Imtiyaz Khanday
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<Imtiyaz Khanday> investigates <seed> development and ways of preserving useful crop <genotypes> through asexual <seed> production. His UC Davis research programme connects embryo initiation, <seed dormancy> and clonal crop propagation.https://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/people/imtiyaz-khanday[Institutional research profile]{ref}
In work published online in 2018 and in a 2019 issue, Khanday and colleagues redirected the rice embryogenesis regulator <BABY BOOM1> into the <egg cell>. Combining embryo initiation without <fertilization> with altered <meiosis> produced clonal <seeds> in an engineered system. The two components address different requirements: starting an <embryo> and retaining the maternal <genotype>.<A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds by Imtiyaz Khanday and others>[Abstract and publication metadata: online 12 December 2018, Nature 565, pp. 91–95 (2019)]{ref}
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