Geel vs Paars Meestal zijn de bloemen van een soort gelijk van kleur. Maar soms ook niet. Zoals voor een Tibetaanse Iris die zowel gele als paarse bloemen kan hebben. Nu laten Chinese onderzoekers in BMC Plant Biology zien dat dit het resultaat is van foutjes in het kleur-gen F3H. Voor planten is hun bloemkleurContinue reading “Geel vs Paars”
Category Archives: Evolution
Natural GMO
Natural GMO The genome of an organism is not a static thing. It is continuously moving. Genes change, they acquire extra functions or lose them. At sometimes a genome inherits new genes. At other times a gene is lost. Al together a genome is totally dynamic. One of those is the acquiring of genes throughContinue reading “Natural GMO”
Carrot history
Carrot history This time I would like to talk about carrots. About the ever-present orange one, but also about the white, yellow, and purple variants. A group of American and Polish researchers resequenced the genome of 630 carrot variants. Through doing this they deciphered a lot about its history and its orange colour. Wild carrotsContinue reading “Carrot history”
Unlocking a genome
Unlocking a genome Long before we had wheat we domesticated einkorn, a grain variety which is one of the ancestors of our current bread wheat. There are both domesticated as wild einkorn variants. Moreover, this grain has a high disease resistance. And it has in contrast to the sextuple genome of wheat, a diploid genome.Continue reading “Unlocking a genome”
Plant en Zo 