Evolution, Vol. 71, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 215-226 (12 pages) Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid–diploid life cycle). However, ...

Something that could take up to a half dozen years to complete can now be developed in a couple of years. In the plant-breeding world, it’s nothing short of a small miracle. Research by Tanveer ...

Kelp species such as Saccharina japonica and Undaria pinnatifida serve as critical global economic resources. However, global ...

The production of doubled haploids (DH) has become a necessary tool in advanced plant breeding institutes and commercial companies for breeding many crop species. However, the development of new, more ...

Mating systems of haploid species such as fungi, algae, and bryophytes are either heterothallic (self-incompatible) with two sex phenotypes (male and female, or mating type minus and plus in isogamous ...

The origin of triploid export banana cultivars was investigated. They all belong to Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups of triploid clones and have a monospecific Musa acuminata origin. The appearance ...