This month 62 new breaking news stories were posted on the GPC website including...
From Journal of Experimental Botany: Marvellous Little Pulses
The latest special issue from Journal of Experimental Botany focuses scientific attention on pulse crops. A key part of many food cultures, pulses really are ‘little marvels’.
Open-source mungbean genetic database
Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.
The evolutionary story of the Birch tree told through 80 genomes
A new study illuminates the evolutionary history of birch, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value.
More genes turned on when plants compete
The lessons of plant diversity and competition learned from a clover patch can potentially unlock secrets on plant interactions around the globe.
Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Using a variety of sequencing and bioinformatics tools, chromosomal imaging and PCR technology, scientists have, for the first time, identified a large chromosomal swap in the genome of the Cavendish banana, which prevents the proper reshuffling of its DNA in its progeny.
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