In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would ...

Indeed, after eight years of tedious experiments with these plants, and—by his own admission—"some courage" to persist with them, Mendel proposed three foundational principles of inheritance.

Mendel's brilliance is unrecognized. On February 8, 1865, Mendel presented his work to the Brunn Society for Natural Science. His paper, "Experiments on Plant Hybridization," was published the ...

This notion that Mendel fabricated his data goes back to the year 1900, when biologist W. F. R. Weldon first read Mendel’s seminal paper with some skepticism. Working with famous mathematician Karl ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics ...

We're almost done with 2022, a year that marked the bicentennial of Gregor Mendel's birth. He's known as the father of genetics because his experiments with pea plants established the basic rules ...

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. ... a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

As he explained when he presented his historic paper “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” in 1865, Mendel had spent nine years testing 28,000 plants, most of them pea plants.

In 1866, Mendel published the results of his experiments. The paper received little attention. In 1868, Mendel was named abbot (head monk) of his monastery, and his research gave way to ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

In 1866, Mendel published the results of his experiments. The paper received little attention. In 1868 he was named abbot (head monk) of his monastery, and his research gave way to administrative ...