Sentences with phrase «ancestral version»

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.

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.

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.

The special attributes of the ancestral versions of these enzyme superfamlies, and the self - reinforcing feedback system they would have formed with the first genes and proteins, would have kick - started early biology and driven the first life forms toward greater diversity and complexity, the researchers said.

The comparatively colorful forest morphs are likely the ancestral version of the species, which evolved as Africa's southern forests shrank.

They reasoned that if a virus had largely co-diverged with its host, evolving right alongside it, then the virus's phylogenetic tree should resemble its host's: ancestral versions of the virus ought to have infected the host's ancestors.