The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics.   Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

That set the stage for the development of Mendelian genetics as we know it today, and no doubt played into a century’s worth of developments in molecular biology, from the discovery of the ...

The Father of Genetics. Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the "Father of Genetics," but he was remembered as a gentle ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Mendel's work led to the discovery of ... worked with Ellis, a long-time pea genetics expert, to select more than 700 samples from the institute's Pisum collection.

The findings were published this week in the journal Nature. The study, titled Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel's pea genes, was led by Cheng Shifeng, a professor of the Agricultural ...