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Despite the higher levels of DNA damage in polyploid cells, they showed greater resistance to cisplatin than diploid cells.
Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...
"The immediate effects of polyploidy are poorly understood. Theoretical explanations for immediate WGD-induced metabolomic change are almost exclusively focused on the increase in gene dosage.
IN a recent communication 1, Prof. D. Kostoff describes experiments in which he has produced a polyploid condition in seedlings grown in close association with disintegrating pieces of the corms ...
Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...