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Rescued by wild genes

In the ever-ongoing arms race between crops and their pest scientist are kept busy by identifying new resistance mechanisms against new pests. Now a new study by Israeli scientists illustrates that looking at the genomes of those contributing wild relatives might help.

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”

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”