Scientists have revealed how certain wild plants with naturally doubled ‘supergenomes’ can stay ahead of the game when it comes to adapting to climate volatility and hostile environments.
This world-first study, published in ,could have significant implications for plant and crop sustainability in the face of climate change.
The research team used a close relative of the native UK plant Arabidopsis, or thale cress, which can have either a single or a double genome. The findings provide the most solid evidence to date of the pervasive evolutionary effects of a doubled genome across an entire species range.
The study is also the first to comprehensively test a century of evolutionary theory using new technologies to sequence hundreds of genomes. The work was led by Associate Professor of Evolutionary Genomics , from the 糖心原创’s School of Life Sciences and Future Food Beacon.
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Posted on Monday 4th March 2019