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

Ancient survival strategy: Flowering plants duplicated entire genomes during at least nine major environmental crises over 150 million years. Polyploidy under stress: Polyploids often struggle in ...

Nine survival bursts: Researchers identified nine clusters of whole-genome duplication in flowering plants over 150 million years, linked to major geological and climate events. Hopeful monsters: ...

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer research is understanding why some tumor cells become especially aggressive, invasive and resistant to treatment. Scientists have increasingly linked these ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer research is understanding why some tumor cells become especially aggressive, invasive ...

Polyploid cells (green, indicated with arrows) migrate into the surrounding tissue of a fruit fly larva. Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain ...

Polyploidy, the condition of carrying more than two complete chromosome sets, is a pervasive force in plant and some animal lineages, shaping genome evolution, adaptation and speciation. Polyploids ...

Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that if animal cells gain an extra set of chromosomes, a condition known as polyploidy, they activate a stress signaling pathway ...

Blueberry prices across China have dropped sharply in recent weeks as rapidly expanding domestic production floods the market, turning the once premium fruit into a more affordable everyday snack.