Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

In hard times, some flowering plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. These monsters are more common ...

When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...

Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to untangle the genetic complexity of crops with multiple chromosome sets. Now, researchers have unveiled a cost-effective sequencing method, dpMIG-seq, that ...

Scientists have long known that some cells in a given tissue undergo a process of duplicating their entire genome without dividing – a process called endopolyploidy, where cellular ploidy is the copy ...

Confocal microscopy is performed with nuclear reporters and stains, nuclear segmentation with ilastik is conducted, and a machine learning method is used to classify the ploidy of each nucleus. Colors ...