In higher plants, sexual reproduction is characterized by meiosis of the first cells of the germlines, and double fertilization of egg and central cell after gametogenesis. In contrast, in apomicts of the genus Boechera, meiosis is omitted or altered and only the central cell requires fertilization, while the embryo forms parthenogenetically from the egg cell. To deepen the understanding of the transcriptional basis underlying these differences, we applied RNA-Seq to compare expression …