As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes. (wheat.org)
As more human genomes from different populations are sequenced, it will be exciting to see if any traits are associated with carrying the mutated versus ancestral version of polymorphic HARs. (the-scientist.com)
Because the leg fan reminded the researchers of a Japanese fan, they decided to call the newer gene geisha and its ancestral version mother of geisha. (scientificamerican.com)