This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract • Background and Aims Genome size and chromosome numbers are important cytological characters that significantly influence various organismal ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The chromosome numbers in fifteen North American Polygonatum strains belonging to the species P. cobrense, P. pubescens, P. biflorum, and P.

Cell division is an essential process in humans, animals and plants as dying or injured cells are replenished throughout life. Cells divide at least a billion times in the average person, usually ...

Chromosomes are tiny, filamentous structures in the cell nuclei of living beings. They contain genes with genetic information, for example, related to the development or control of diseases. Every ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA to a host plant can make it either a pathogen that damages crops or a ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...

Molecular biologists have identified a gene called NORAD that helps maintain the proper number of chromosomes in cells, and that when inactivated, causes the number of chromosomes in a cell to become ...

Researchers report surprising results of experiments intended to explore the consequences of having too many or too few chromosomes, a phenomenon that biologists call aneuploidy. They were surprised ...

Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases – the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...