But at the end of the day, this research laid the groundwork for all of modern-day genetics. Without those pea plants, we would know a whole lot less about the world—and ourselves.

What Do Pea Plants Have To Do With Your Eye Color? Episode 10 | 13m 25s Video has Closed Captions | CC. In this episode, we’ll learn about Gregor Mendel, who used pea plants to study genetics.

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 ...

By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Gregor Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before anyone knew exactly what genes were.

My name is Gregor Mendel, and I am a friar and the founder of genetics. I spent decades of my life staring at pea plants. I bred them with each other. I observed the traits of their offspring. I ...

The choice of the pea plant also contributed to the success of the research, thanks to some of its attributes: ... This phenomenon, known as genetic linkage, was only discovered in 1905.

Meta Description: Mendel's pea plant study, rediscovered in 1900, laid the foundation for genetics, with new insights revealed in 2025.

In 1905, William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders, and Reginald Punnett were examining flower color and pollen shape in sweet pea plants (Bateson et al., 1905) by performing dihybrid crosses ...

image: Pods of wild type peas next to high iron mutants . view more . Credit: John Innes Centre. A genetic breakthrough has opened new opportunities for iron-fortified vegetables and cereal crops ...