The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings, new research suggests. Scientists in Europe have found out that the traditional history of the 'rediscovery' of Gregor ...

Phenotypic diversity in the seven traits of pea plants. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of international scientists, mainly from China and the United Kingdom, has jointly identified the genetic ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

A perspective article in a leading journal argues for an experimental paradigm change to capture complex gene effects in combination with environment and genetic background. To the Point: - Many ...

Decades later, biologists revisited his paper and notes in the margins and found that his experiments revealed the basis of heredity. Once a forgotten footnote, the garden experiment became the seed ...

When selecting hybrids, you're continuing work that started over 100 years ago with innovators seeking better than 25-bushel-per-acre corn.

Scientists have uncovered how certain “selfish” genes cheat the normal rules of inheritance by destroying rival sperm cells.

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