Plants show similar variation, with one—the fork fern (Tmesipteris oblanceolata)—holding the record for the largest genome, ...

Using computational analysis, the researchers compared the genome maps and ... tweaks changed the mature plants. The genetic duplicates, or paralogs, ended up being important for determining traits ...

Banana through the Global Musa Genomics Consortium and programme considering its small genome size has a chance of becoming a model plant for vegetatively propagated crops. This has led to the ...

Ever since the first general surveys of nuclear DNA content were carried out in the early 1950s, it has been apparent that eukaryotic genome sizes vary enormously and that this is unrelated to ...

We apply genomics, genetics, physiology and cell biology to understand the processes of plant genome dynamics, and exploit genome structural knowledge to develop tools and know-how for plant breeding.