«It's almost as if we had traveled back in time and sampled the same
plant that gave rise to cultivated peanuts from the gardens of these ancient people,» said
David Bertioli, an International Peanut Genome Initiative, or IPGI,
plant geneticist of the Universidade de Brasília, who is working at UGA.
«Most of what you want to do is to disable genes one at a time,» and then examine what happens to the organism, says
David W. Meinke, a
plant geneticist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.