Newly unveiled meiosis elucidates the unreduced gamete frequency and its impact on the evolution of the Lemna minor complex
Yuri Lee (이유리), Veit Schubert, Anton Stepanenko, Gihwan Kim, Luca Braglia, Ingo Schubert, Laura Morello · 2026
Read Newly unveiled meiosis elucidates the unreduced gamete frequency and its impact on the evolution of the Lemna minor complex by Yuri Lee (이유리), Veit Schubert, Anton Stepanenko, Gihwan Kim, Luca Braglia, Ingo Schubert, Laura Morello (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13529332.txt.
Description
Yuri Lee and co-authors report a plant study from 2026 on duckweed, among the smallest flowering plants. Duckweed spreads mostly by cloning, and its cell-division steps for making seeds had never been fully recorded. Yet DNA clues showed hybrids and triple sets of genes, which hinted at sex with unreduced cells.
The team photographed the division stages for the first time and used glow-tagged probes to spot unreduced male cells. They counted how often such cells occur in different plants and weighed why they form. The work explains how hybrids and triple forms arise in this group. Readers get new insight into plant breeding and change over time in a rising crop plant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuri Lee (이유리), Veit Schubert, Anton Stepanenko, Gihwan Kim, Luca Braglia, Ingo Schubert, Laura Morello |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |