Mendel's pea plant study, rediscovered in 1900, laid the foundation for genetics, with new insights revealed in 2025.

Mendel started with 22 pea (Pisum sativum) plants and cross-bred them to get over 10,000 plants. These were classified according to a set of characteristics like seed colour, shape of the pod ...

More than 160 years after Mendel’s pea experiments, scientists have created a powerful genetic map that could revolutionise ...

When Fr. Gregor Mendel researched the phenotypic representation of traits in the pea plant, did he think a young boy in Nigeria would fall in love with him and his work hundreds of years later?

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The females lay eggs, and the larvae from those eggs will burrow into the soil, to feed on the roots of pea plants. “The most critical damage in peas and fababeans comes from the larvae feeding ...

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The crop plant used in our study is sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Phenotyping is a set of methodologies for analyzing and obtaining characteristic traits of a plant. In a phenotypic study, ...

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