Polyploidization of plants occurs in nature but it is a slow and gradual process that has
driven evolution and speciation throughout the ages. As time is important, polyploidization …

Spice crops comprise diverse, economically valuable crops with numerous applications
ranging from culinary to pharmaceutical industries. Spices are an integral part of cuisines …

Background The in vivo determination of the cell-specific chromosome number provides a
valuable tool in several aspects of plant research. However, current techniques to determine …

FISH is a useful method to identify individual chromosomes in a karyotype and to discover
their structural changes accompanying genome evolution and speciation. DNA probes for …

The selection of a growing medium is one of the most important decisions in the culture of
hydroponic crops. In order to select a suitable medium for hydroponic cucumber (Cucumis …

Abstract Development of wheat–alien translocation lines has facilitated practical utilization of
alien species in wheat improvement. The production of a compensating Triticum aestivum …

Conventional approaches to identify a telomere motif in a new genome are laborious and
time-intensive. An efficient new methodology based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) …

Modern sugarcane is an unusually complex heteroploid crop, and its genome comprises two
or three subgenomes. To reduce the complexity of sugarcane genome research, the ploidy …

Chromosome numbers and morphology are important characteristics of a species and its
evolution. Root tips are the most commonly used tissue as a source of actively dividing cells …

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a widely used method to localize DNA
sequences on mitotic and meiotic chromosomes and interphase nuclei. It was developed in …