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  • New Microhaplotype Databases and Tools Reveal Crop Genetic Diversity
  • Giant Sunflower Family Genome Assembly Opens Path to New Perennial Crops
  • Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

New Microhaplotype Databases and Tools Reveal Crop Genetic Diversity

Tiny DNA Signatures Give Crop Breeders a Sharper View of Hidden Genetic Diversity Plant breeders have gained a new way to see genetic variation that standard DNA markers can miss....

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Giant Sunflower Family Genome Assembly Opens Path to New Perennial Crops

A pair of prairie plants with roots deep enough to reach several meters into the soil has moved closer to becoming a new generation of climate-resilient crops. Researchers at The L...

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bioengineer.org /3 weeks ago

Mild Pepper Virus Turned Into a Powerful Gene Tool for Crop Scientists

Pepper is one of the most economically important vegetable crops in the world, yet scientists trying to understand which of its genes do what have long been hampered by a stubborn...

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botany.one /1 month ago

The End of Papaya?: What Genomics Teaches Us About Its Survival

A study of papayas in Mexican backyards reveals how hybridisation between wild and cultivated plants can boost genetic diversity while creating new challenges for conservation.

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bioengineer.org /1 week ago

Low-Coverage Genome Sequencing Uncovers Hidden Clonal Seed Formation in Apple Relatives

A low-coverage whole-genome sequencing screen of USDA apple germplasm identified 17 previously unknown apomictic genotypes, offering a cheaper, faster method for detecting clonal s...

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bioengineer.org /6 days ago

Engineered Rhizobium Strain Opens Transient Gene Expression to Diverse Crops

An engineered Rhizobium rhizogenes strain called AS109 enables efficient transient gene expression across diverse dicot crop species, opening rapid functional genomics to non-model...

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bioengineer.org /3 weeks ago

Wild Beet Genome Study Reveals the Surprising Single-Species Origin of a Stress-Tolerant Tetraploid

Sugar beet is one of the world’s most important sources of sugar, yet like nearly every crop plant that has passed through the bottleneck of domestication, it carries only a fracti...

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journals.plos.org /1 week ago

A broad-host-range <i>Rhizobium rhizogenes</i> strain enables transient expression across diverse crop speci...

by Freddie King, Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo, Christopher Stephens, May Htet Aung, Tarhan Ibrahim, Enoch Lok Him Yuen, Ao Chen, Nick Eilmann, Saskia Jenkins, Cristina Vuolo, Yueh-Nin...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Quantifying crop science: a review of phenotyping, mechanics, and modeling

Crop science is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation, and a new review published in Plant Molecular Biology argues that the change amounts to the birth of an entirely new...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Pepper Study Links Ultra-Long Centromere Haplotypes to Evolution and Domestication Traits

Pepper plants may be hiding some of their most consequential genetic variation in regions long treated as difficult, repetitive stretches of DNA. A study published in Nature Ecolog...

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scitechdaily.com /1 month ago

Scientists Turn Red Strawberries White With a Single Gene Edit

Precisely editing the dominant MYB10-1B gene copy converted red strawberries into stable white fruit and demonstrated a targeted strategy for modifying polyploid crops. A strawberr...

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forestsnews.org /2 weeks ago

The genetics behind better tree seed 

In Kenya and Rwanda, breeding seed orchards and mother blocks are helping improve access to quality tree seed and planting material. Through the Quality Tree Seed for Africa projec...

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newswire.com /1 week ago

Papaya Strain Guide Clarifies Genealogy and Conflicting Pedigrees

Independent resource compares legacy and current seed lines while summarizing 262 historical flower tests

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Development of a low-coverage whole genome sequencing screen for apomixis using a diverse set of <i>Malus</i&gt...

by Charity Z. Goeckeritz, Václav Polcar, Benjamin Gutierrez, Tomáš Urfus, Alex Harkess In the past decade, plant biologists have made several major discoveries pertaining to the g...

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journals.plos.org /1 week ago

PrimeStack editors enable efficient and site-specific integration of large multigene cargos in plants

by Edith Sánchez, Khalid Sedeek, Haroon Butt, Magdy Mahfouz Precise, site-specific integration of large DNA sequences into plant genomes is a long-standing goal of crop biotechnol...

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asianscientist.com /1 month ago

How These Parasitic Vines Don’t Just Steal Nutrients. They Steal Genes, Too

Dodders borrowed a sesamin-producing gene from an ancient host millions of years ago, and reshaped it to fit their own biology.

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agrilifetoday.tamu.edu /1 month ago

New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops

‘CRISPR-Combo’ system cuts months off growing plants The post New gene-editing tool speeds regeneration of hard-to-breed perennial crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

Shrubby Cinquefoil Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal Hidden DNA Traffic Between Cell Compartments

The first complete mitochondrial genomes of Dasiphora fruticosa and D. glabra reveal stable gene cores, lineage-specific repeats, and extensive DNA transfer between cellular compar...

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bioengineer.org /2 weeks ago

Genomic Selection Models Predict Wheat Baking Quality Years Earlier, New Study Shows

A twelve-year study of hard red spring wheat shows that both conventional two-step and single-step reaction norm genomic selection models can predict milling, dough, and baking qua...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Multi-omics reveals metabolic regulation of petal color in Phalaenopsis

In a finding that is already rippling through the world of ornamental plant science, researchers in China have pieced together, gene by gene and pigment by pigment, the molecular m...

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botany.one /5 days ago

Science Shared: October 17

This week: Genetics dominates the most shared papers of the week

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beefmagazine.com /1 month ago

Balancing genetics

Successful genetic programs require understanding who buys your calves and what traits they value most in their production systems.

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Hidden Genetic Brake Discovered That Controls How Tomatoes Survive Extreme Heat

As heat waves grow longer and more punishing across the world’s tomato-growing regions, scientists have been racing to understand how this beloved crop copes when temperatures clim...

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bioengineer.org /1 month ago

Early Gibberellin Surge Under High-Density Planting Weakens Rapeseed Stems, Study Finds

Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more...

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