These resources provide an overview to how the basic principles of inheritance were studied and elucidated by Gregor Mendel. Basic linkage analysis is also described to serve as a foundation for more ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

This Special Issue celebrates Mendel’s 200th birthday by focusing on exceptions to the Mendelian ‘laws’. Discovery in science is often driven forward more by exceptions than by rules. In genetics, ...