Capsella provides insight into the genomic results of selfing
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 09:31
in Biology & Nature
About 200,000 years ago, Capsella rubella began self fertilizing and split from C. grandiflora. To study the effects of selfing on C. rubella's genome, the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute sequenced and compared it with C. grandiflora and members of the closely related Arabidopsis genus - the first plant ever sequenced and model species for plant genomics. The study was published June 9th in Nature Genetics.