Haploid plants, which carry only a single set of chromosomes, are typically sterile, making them valuable but difficult to use in breeding. A rare peach haploid mutant, '9-D', surprisingly exhibited ...

Scientists have discovered a gene, 'Meiosin', that acts as the switch to turn on meiosis. The gene appears to be related to the cause of infertility and could be a big step forward for reproductive ...

A new study, published this month in the American Journal of Human Genetics has found that there is a high level of meiotic recombination failure in human immature egg cells (oocytes). The findings ...

Most cells in the tissues of most organisms proliferate through somatic cell division (mitosis). This is a continuous cycle where a single cell doubles its genetic information (chromosomes) and ...