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Decoding Nature’s Secrets: The 125 Million-Year Evolutionary Puzzle of Crop Genetics

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Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory identified key differences in gene regulation between tomato and Arabidopsis thaliana plants. This breakthrough highlights the importance of understanding genetic regulation to enhance predictability and efficiency in agriculture. For tomatoes, engineering mutations near the beginning but not the end of the CLV3 gene dramatically affected fruit size. For Arabsids, areas around both parts of the gene needed to be disrupted.

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Decoding Nature’s Secrets: The 125 Million-Year Evolutionary Puzzle of Crop Genetics

Plant genomics has come a long way since Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) helped sequence the first plant genome. But engineering the perfect crop is still, in many ways, a game of chance. Making the same DNA mutation in two different plants doesn’t always give us the crop traits we want. The qu

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