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Showing posts with label plant genetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plant genetics. Show all posts
February 14, 2016

Genetic structure of pearl millet, an African cereal

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Quickies Zhenbin Hu et al., Population genomics of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.): Comparative analysis of global accessi...
March 16, 2013

Plants do use epigenetics to adapt to diverse environments

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If you've ever grown plants that come from a distant land, you may be familiar with the fact that you may need an adaptive process of o...
February 8, 2013

Olive domestication origins tracked to West Asia

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Olive tree - Pelion, Greece (CC by Dennis Koutou) A new genetic study claims that the origins of olive domestication are in West As...
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November 16, 2012

Some genetic support for South China origin of rice

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CC by IRRI Images I really miss Vietnam and other parts of Indochina (Cambodia, Thailand...) in this oh-so-Chinese study. Draw a line o...
November 1, 2012

Genetic insights on tomato origins

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Who doesn't love tomato? Well, my dad. But besides him...  But one thing is loving tomato sauce, tomato salad, tomato in sandwich o...
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October 25, 2012

East Asian oaks in the Ice Age

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It may sound botanically erudite but it is also of great relevance in order to better understand the ecology and geography of people livin...
November 3, 2011

Genetic history of European barley

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Barley Nice new information on the genetics of Hordeum vulgare that may help to understand the Neolithic in Europe: Huw Jones et al. Ev...
June 25, 2011

Coconut scatter shows that, once established, a population structure is hard to alter

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You may have heard of this by now: B. F. Gunn et al, Independent Origins of Cultivated Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) in the Old World Tropics...
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