Cross-pollination of pea plants

Mendel is known as the father of genetics because of his ground-breaking work on inheritance in pea plants 150 years ago.

In 2010, the gene controlling pea flower colour – first studied by Gregor Mendel 150 years earlier ­­– was identified by researchers from New Zealand and...

Our understanding of how inherited traits are passed between generations comes from principles first proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1866. Mendel worked on pea plants, but...

Strawberries grown from bee-pollinated flowers are more prolific, last longer and are better quality (as measured by colour, size, weight and lack of malformations) than those...