You Say Tomato, I Say Comparative Transcriptomics
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 15:50
in Biology & Nature
Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have produced the first comparison of both the DNA sequences and which genes are active, or being transcribed, between the domestic tomato and its wild cousins.The results give insight into the genetic changes involved in domestication and may help with future efforts to breed new traits into tomato or other crops, said Julin Maloof, professor of plant biology in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis and senior author of the study in PNAS. read more