Ploidy (/ˈplɔɪdi/) is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal...

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or...

abnormalities). These changes can have significant phenotypic consequences. Ploidy refers to the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell. Humans typically...

important plants of the genus Brassica are also tetraploids. Sugarcane can have ploidy levels higher than octaploid. Polyploidization can be a mechanism of sympatric...

This section is missing information about techniques other than ploidy, such as inducing parthenocarpy in species that don’t normally do so (e.g. watermelon/gourd...

Radiola linoides is the sole species in the Radiola genus, a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Linaceae. It has the common names...

potato, but unlike the potato which is tetraploid, it has several levels of ploidy: diploid, tetraploid, and hexaploid. This species gives its name to the...

one ploidy level will be more closely related to each other. Ploidy level influences some plant characteristics. For example, higher levels of ploidy tend...

more common in haplo-diploid species, a species where sex is determined by ploidy, males generally develop from an unfertilized egg and females from a fertilized...

Jacob; Berry, Andrew; England, Clifford; Raemakers, Krit (1 January 2020). "Ploidy Level in American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) Cultivars". HortScience...