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Some speculate that apomixis has the potential to reduce biodiversity because it produces clonal cultivars and hence uniform populations that are susceptible to disease epidemics. However, others caution that the suspected reduction in biodiversity would be minimal since apomixis occurs naturally in polyploids, which occurs less frequently than diploids.