Genetics of Polyploids | Vegetable Breeding
Polyploids are defined as organisms with other than 2 basic sets of chromosomes, that is, monoploids, triploids, tetraploids, and various aneuploids. Segregation in polyploids differs from that in diploids due to the many different ways in which the chromosomes can pair in a polyploid and due to larger number of alleles segregating at each locus. Judging by the frequency with [...]