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 ...

Despite the higher levels of DNA damage in polyploid cells, they showed greater resistance to cisplatin than diploid cells. Credit: Cell Death Discovery (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41420-024-02206-w ...

NEARLY thirty years ago attention was directed by N. Barlow 1 to the genetic problem presented by the inheritance of style length in the trimorphic heterostylic plant Lythrum salicaria. Barlow was ...

(B) After treatment with the anti-cancer drug cisplatin, polyploid cells accumulated more DNA damage than diploid cells. The bright spots in the image represent DNA damage, visualized by microscopy.

eugenioides and C. canephora. The hybridization resulted in a polyploid genome, meaning each offspring contains two sets of chromosomes from each parent. This may have given C. arabica a survival ...

Unlike most plants that inherit half of their genes from each parent, this seagrass is a polyploid, meaning it carries the entire genome of both parents. This genetic advantage may have allowed ...

Flow cytometry measurements are applied for the determination of the ploidy levels of plants. Genetic improvement involving hybridisation across ploidy levels (diploid, aneuploid or polyploid) is ...