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A targeted 'off switch' in a plant's egg cell speeds up the breeding process
- May 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana very efficiently. This process involves degrading a specific protein in the centromere. The study's findings, published in the journal Plant Communications, could in principle also be applied to crop plants, significantly speeding up breeding processes.
Originally published at Phys.org