Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

In this new study, published in Cell Reports, experts from the University's School of Life Sciences look at how three successful polyploid plant species evolved to manage the extra DNA and whether ...

But there's just one thing: Newly formed polyploid individuals of a plant species are usually completely or almost completely sterile and cannot be propagated easily.