Complex algae, animals, fungi and plants all have predictable life histories that separate out three basic aspects of ...
You may have heard of haploid and diploid species, which carry one set of unpaired chromosomes, or two sets chromosomes, respectively. Human beings are diploid, for example. But cultivated oats (Avena ...
Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...
The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...