The novel sh2isu1 sweet corn germplasm resource perfectly addresses the issues of insufficient flavor in super sweet maize and low sugar content in common sweet corn. Its excellent characteristics can directly serve the high-end specialty maize breeding system.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome doubling, is one of evolution's most powerful forces in plants, yet its real-world consequences in natural populations remain poorly understood. 

Most aquaculture species have long maturation periods that limit breeding efficiency. Here, researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, report in Science China Life Sciences with a cover story of an ultra-fast surrogate reproduction strategy: female germline stem cells from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus), a species requiring ~5 years to mature and >20× longer and ~20,000× heavier than zebrafish, were transplanted into zebrafish (~3 cm, 3-month maturation), producing all-female grass carp within just three months, dramatically shortening the breeding cycle.