Year: 2022

CROP HAPLOIDS. "Haploid plants (characterized by gametic number of chromosomes) are both significant and necessary elements in plant improvement programs. They are important in many basic research disciplines, such as biotechnology, genetics, crop evolution and plant breeding. Moreover, haploids are very useful as a base for the production of homozygous plants in that they expedite the breeding process and can lead to an increase in crop yield." https://lnkd.in/g4mkgn7 View in LinkedIn

PLANT ENGINEERING. "Haploidisation is a biotechnological method used to obtain plants with improved traits that are of use to humans." https://lnkd.in/g4mkgn7 View in LinkedIn

PURE LINE HAPLOID PLANTS. "Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), a well-known and popular leafy vegetable, is consumed worldwide. Its haploid form would provide a good basis for producing a pure line of plants (doubled haploids) allowing new varieties to be regenerated." https://lnkd.in/g4mkgn7 View in LinkedIn

DIPLOID PARTHENOGENESIS. "Development to term of chimaeras between diploid parthenogenetic and fertilised embryos. Parthenogenic mouse embryos have the potential for extensive cellular proliferation as well as differentiation into various cell types. But this potential has been realised only when parthenogenetic embryos have been transferred to extrauterine sites, and in spontaneously occurring ovarian teratomas and teratocarcinomas of parthenogenetic origin." https://lnkd.in/gAXZaG6 View in LinkedIn

CHIMAERAS. "Teratocarcinoma cells and cells carrying known lethal alleles can develop into viable chimaeras when aggregated with cells from normal embryos." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v270/n5638/abs/270601a0.html View in LinkedIn

TERM CHIMAERAS. "Previous attempts to achieve development to term of aggregation chimaeras between parthenogenetic and fertilised embryos were apparently unsuccessful. We have introduced inner cell masses (ICMs) from diploid, parthenogenetic embryos into intact fertilised mouse blastocysts, and we report here the development of a chimaera to term." https://lnkd.in/gAXZaG6 View in LinkedIn

TERM CHIMAERAS. "Previous attempts to achieve development to term of aggregation chimaeras between parthenogenetic and fertilised embryos were apparently unsuccessful. We have introduced inner cell masses (ICMs) from diploid, parthenogenetic embryos into intact fertilised mouse blastocysts, and we report here the development of a chimaera to term." https://lnkd.in/gAXZaG6 View in LinkedIn

TRIPLOIDS. "Rare diploid females coexist with rare males: a novel finding in triploid parthenogenetic populations in the psyllid Cacopsylla myrtilli. Males mated with females but showed no mating preference for diploid females." https://lnkd.in/gnDJkzh View in LinkedIn

TRIPLOID REVERSALS. "Lack of genuine bisexual reproduction owing to either asynaptic meiosis in males, or rarity of males with normal meiosis, suggests that diploids are produced in every generation by parthenogenetic females as reversals from triploidy, with their production being enhanced by environmental factor(s) associated with high altitude." https://lnkd.in/gnDJkzh View in LinkedIn

NEW SPECIES. "From the evolutionary point of view, the presence of males and diploid females with normal meiosis in parthenogenetic populations could be significant as they exhibit the potential to re-evolve either a new sexual species of parthenogenetic ancestry or a new parthenogenetic species by contagious parthenogenesis." https://lnkd.in/gnDJkzh View in LinkedIn