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Mythicalnematode t1_jbllzz0 wrote

Reply to comment by bird-nird in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy

Hello fellow plant ecologist! Also not a geneticist but aren’t triploid plants sterile? They can’t evenly split their chromosomes during meiosis.

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bird-nird t1_jblntl6 wrote

Well, it looks like you are right - I apologize, I was not aware that triploids are generally sterile. Apparently they can reproduce but it's not as common: https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/51/8/article-p968.xml#:~:text=Triploids%20are%20typically%20highly%20infertile,et%20al.%2C%202011).

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bird-nird t1_jblnvvc wrote

It now makes sense why I've heard of triploidy in Aspen in particular, as they are clonal species :)

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