Targeting CRISPR–Cas9 at centromeric retrotransposons in hexaploid bread wheat reconfigured up to 11 chromosomes in a single ...

Inheriting a normal and intact number of chromosomes in germ cells, egg and sperm, is essential for the preservation of all species. With increasing age, the risk of the egg cell not inheriting the ...

Inheriting a normal and intact number of chromosomes in germ cells, egg and sperm, is essential for the preservation of all species. With increasing age, the risk of the egg cell not inheriting the ...

Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study uncovers how sexual reproduction of a fertile triploid loquat generates a ...

An international research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in research into the reproduction of dogrose. The study, which has now been published in Nature, shows how differences in the ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs. "But until now, we've only ever seen a particular ...

Researchers predict that having extra sets of chromosomes can both speed up and slow down the evolution of an organism, depending on the organism’s “fitness landscape.” Crop plants such as wheat and ...

Newswise — Changes in chromosome number are common in plants, but the direction of those changes is often difficult to reconstruct because ancestral forms are extinct or unknown. In Medicago, this ...

A comparative genomic study finds that strong selection on maternally inherited egg colour mimicry in cuckoo finches ...

For those who have memorized inheritance patterns and chromosome knowledge but struggle with pedigree charts and ...