“…Poliplodization is an important strategy used in forage breeding programs, because it may increase the expression of agronomic traits of interest, restore fertility of intra-and interspecific hybrids, and, in some cases, permit the exploration of genetic variability in apomictic species by duplicating sexual plants and equaling the ploidy to allow the accomplishment of crossings and obtaining fertile offspring (PEREIRA et al, 2001;NAIR, 2004;BARBOSA et al, 2007;CAMPOS et al, 2009;ISHIGAKI et al, 2009;SIMIONI & VALLE, 2009;PEREIRA et al, 2014;TIMBÓ et al, 2014).…”