Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Some of the most popular potato cultivars were bred many decades ago. The reason for this limited success is the complex ...

Researchers from LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have reconstructed the genomes of ten historic ...

Homologous chromosomes will swap genetic material in a process known as crossing over which increase genetic diversity by creating four unique chromatids. - Microtubules attach to the centromeres ...

(Sullivan and Bors, after years of experimentation, had created partially fertile musk hybrids with the requisite extra chromosomes ... Through seven years of crossing the original Canadian ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

LEXINGTON — From fledgling program to state champion in six years, Great Crossing’s journey to the top of Kentucky high school basketball is complete. And a 6-foot-11 mountain of a man named ...

Iran 'Runs' To Putin Before Second Meeting With Trump's Team On Nukes; Russia Issues Big Warning Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is set to visit Moscow this week for high-level ...