Arabica coffee plant appears to have evolved between 600,000 and 1 million years ago after two other coffee species crossbred ...

Despite this, many Cucurbitaceae crops retain genetic information from their diploid progenitors, displaying genetic stability unusual in polyploid evolution. The study of Chinese cabbage and ...

Humans, and most species, are diploid: They have two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. Most plants are polyploid, with cells replicating again and again. Polyploidy is what fattens ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered a cellular process in the breast that can increase milk production by pregnant ...

Scientists have found that two different kinds of coffee species cross-pollinated in Ethiopian woodlands 600,000–1 million ...

However, newly formed polyploid plants are often sterile or have ... Digging Up New Species of Australia and New Guinea's Giant Fossil Kangaroos Apr. 15, 2024 — Palaeontologists have described ...

But there’s just one thing: newly formed polyploid individuals of a plant species are usually completely or almost completely sterile and cannot be propagated easily. The reason why these plants ...

The newly completed polyploid assembly of an archetypal modern hybrid reveals the complexities of sugarcane’s genetic past, and presents new opportunities for the researchers and breeders ...