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, ...
You may have heard of haploid and diploid species, which carry one set of unpaired chromosomes, or two sets chromosomes, respectively. Human beings are diploid, for example. But cultivated oats (Avena ...
The use of haploid induction in crop breeding offers a transformative approach to accelerating the development of new, highly uniform cultivars. By generating plants with a single set of chromosomes ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Feb., 1972), pp. 495-498 (4 pages) Haploid strains of Dictyostelium discoideum bearing ...
Haploid plants, which carry only a single set of chromosomes, are typically sterile, making them valuable but difficult to ...
IN a previous paper 1, evidence was presented for the presence of dominant lethals in X-irradiated haploid yeast cells. Diploid yeast zygotes formed by the conjugation of one irradiated and one ...