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Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.
The Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel completed his groundbreaking work on genetic inheritance more than 160 years ago, after carefully studying seven traits in peas, including the shape and colour of their seeds and pods. Yet until now, scientists still hadn’t worked out which genes drive three of those traits in the garden pea (Pisum sativum).
Nature 641, 20 (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01269-8
References
Fong, C. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08891-6 (2025).
Kreplak, J. et al. Nature Genet. 51, 1411–1422 (2019).
Rogers, H., Dora, M., Tsolakis, N. & Kumar, M. Appl. Food Res. 4, 100440 (2024).
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