Evolution and domestication of seed structure shown to use same genetic mutation
Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, scientists have identified a mutation in plants that was selected twice -- during both natural evolution and domestication. The mutation has been identified as the source of variation in the evolution of fruit morphology in Brassica plants and it was also the source of key changes during the domestication of rice.