Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential
Sunday, July 31, 2011 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure food security in the future. By dissecting the complicated genome of oilseed rape they have been able to produce maps of the genome that are needed for predictive breeding.