Triploid plants are widely valued in horticulture for desirable traits such as seedlessness, yield improvement, and stress ...

Figure 1: All-triploid, bisexually reproducing green toads (B. pseudoraddei baturae) from the Hunza Valley, Karakoram, Pakistan. Second, the chromosome set without the NOR marker, NOR −, is duplicated ...

Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species.

The popular statewide lowland lakes trout opener is a little more than a month away, and anglers will see a decent spike in the number of large rainbow trout planted by state Fish and Wildlife. The ...

Vol. 303, No. 8, Special Issue: Polyploidy in Deep and Shallow Evolutionary Times (October 2017), pp. 1093-1108 (16 pages) Polyploidy is one of the most important evolutionary processes in plants. In ...

There’s an old adage about oysters: During months whose names don’t contain the letter r—May, June, July, and August—it’s best to stay away. An oyster eaten outside these months should have a ...

Many people think of the seedless watermelons popping up at grocery stores and markets everywhere in the last few years as a marvel of modern scientific technology. In fact, more than 60 percent of ...

If you slurped down any oysters on the half-shell this summer, you probably didn’t realize they were monsters. Not monsters in the pejorative sense, but man made creatures—the invention of a ...