UC Davis Scientists to Decode Genome of Bread Wheat Ancestor
October 9, 2013| |
The Univesity of California, Davis is leading an international team to sequence the genome of the goatgrass Aegilops tauschii, a wild relative of common bread wheat that is responsible for the bread-making quality found in wheat. It is also highly tolerant to salt, drought, aluminum, frost, pests and many wheat diseases. The scientists plan to identify the genes controlling important environmental tolerance and resistance traits, and gain a finer understanding of the biological causes behind the enormous sizes of many plant genomes. The A. tauschii code also will provide geneticists with a badly needed reference for wheat genomics and sequence assembly.
For more information about this research, read the UC Davis news release available at:
http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10733.
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