Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum
Date Time Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum When humans first domesticated maize some 9,000 years ago, those early breeding efforts led to an increase in harmful mutations to the crop’s genome compared to their wild relatives, which more recent modern breeding has helped to correct. Nadia Shakoor/Provided The image shows variation in flower head architecture of the different sorghum races, including (from left to right) bicolor, guinea, caudatum, kafir and durra. A new comparative study investigates whether the same patterns found in maize occurred in sorghum, a gl...
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