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The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

John Innes Centre scientists have helped discover the key to one of biology's most well-known experiments - the gene that controls pea flower colour, used by Gregor Mendel in his initial studies of ...

On a cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby ...

It only took 141 years, but researchers report they have finally pinpointed one of the genes that Austrian monk Gregor Mendel manipulated in his pioneering experiments that established the basic laws ...

The young Gregor Mendel, born 189 years ago today and saluted in a pea-themed Google doodle, wanted to become a teacher. Fortunately for us he was a miserable failure in his studies at the University ...