Submission Statement:
Usually, when breeding plants, the parents each pass a random 50% of their DNA to offspring. So, if you are looking to breed for a specific trait, you have to keep trying until you are lucky enough to get the combination you’re looking for. With this discovery, however, plants pass 100% of their DNA to offspring, so that it only takes one generation to get the desired outcome of the breeding. This will potentially enable a drought-resistant parent to be bred with a high-volume parent to yield a high-volume, drought-resistant offspring in one generation.
Note: I was asked to re-post this with a submission statement.
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so basically, this could lead to faster cultivation of gene edited crops? That’s pretty cool
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Submission Statement:
Usually, when breeding plants, the parents each pass a random 50% of their DNA to offspring. So, if you are looking to breed for a specific trait, you have to keep trying until you are lucky enough to get the combination you’re looking for. With this discovery, however, plants pass 100% of their DNA to offspring, so that it only takes one generation to get the desired outcome of the breeding. This will potentially enable a drought-resistant parent to be bred with a high-volume parent to yield a high-volume, drought-resistant offspring in one generation.
Note: I was asked to re-post this with a submission statement.
so basically, this could lead to faster cultivation of gene edited crops? That’s pretty cool