#crisrp — Public Fediverse posts

Sweet. I mean, double-sweet. Watermelon genome studies find prior domestication doubled the sugar transporter.

Also found useful disease-resistant genes that might be useful to put back in to modern cultivars.

#CRISRP 🍉 , plz.
#scicomm #genomics #pangenome #PlantBreeding

https://btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/behind-the-rind-new-genomic-insights-into-watermelon-evolution-quality-and-resilience/