Humans, and most species, are diploid: They have two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. Most plants are polyploid, with cells replicating again and again. Polyploidy is what fattens ...

The hybridization resulted in a polyploid genome ... "It's often argued that a hybrid polyploidy event can give an immediate evolutionary advantage given that two sets of chromosomes — and ...

Researchers at the Lanzhou Eco-Agricultural Research Station of NIEER combined systematic breeding, hybrid breeding, and polyploid breeding techniques, and cultivated the "Zhongbai No. 1," a high ...