More than rose hips: News about the complicated sex of wild roses

A Czech-German research team led by Dr. André Marques from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Prof. Dr. Christiane Ritz from the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz (and honorary professor at IHI Zittau) and Dr. Aleš Kovařík from the Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant breakthrough in research into the reproduction of dog roses. Veit Herklotz, IHI biotechnology alumnus and now part of the Senckenberg team in Görlitz, was also involved.

The study, which has now been published in the renowned scientific journal "Nature", shows how differences in the size of the centromeres - the central docking sites for chromosomes - play a decisive role in the unusual chromosome inheritance of these plants. In the long term, the results could open up new avenues for the development of more robust crops.

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