More to the bunch: Study finds large chromosomal swaps key to banana domestication
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 15:32
in Biology & Nature
A banana reference genome was completed in 2012. Now, researchers wanted to more finely explore the banana genome with an ultimate goal of helping breeding programs produce hardier, more disease resistant bananas. The significance of their findings are important for agriculture, highlighting a substantial contribution of a new chromosome structure in half the world's banana crops.