Many plant products eaten daily in human diets — such as potato or banana — are polyploid and are notoriously difficult to breed. In this study, the fusion of clonal gametes from distinct diploid tomato parents is used as a blueprint for the design of polyploid genomes in crops.
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This is a summary of: Wang, Y. et al. Harnessing clonal gametes in hybrid crops to engineer polyploid genomes. Nat. Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01750-6 (2024).
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Clonal gametes enable polyploid genome design. Nat Genet 56, 1045–1046 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01751-5
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