
Scientists finally solve the 160-year-old problem of Mendel’s peas
Feng, C., Chen, B., Hofer, J. et al, ‘Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes’, Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08891-6 In 1856, an Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel began experimenting on pea plants to understand how …