A global team mapped pea genomic diversity, advancing breeding research, revisiting Mendel’s traits, and boosting sustainable ...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

The Father of Genetics. Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the "Father of Genetics," but he was remembered as a gentle ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...