Sentences with phrase «wild relatives represent»

From their many sizes and colors (vibrantly demonstrated by the potatoes on offer at the Bolivian market pictured above) along with genes that resist drought, wild relatives represent a genetic storehouse of potentially useful traits, such as the genes that allowed potatoes to recover from the blight that precipitated the Irish potato famine.

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Numbers represent percent increases relative to wild type mice and were calculated from the data shown in Table 1.

Here we use long - read sequencing to generate end - to - end genome assemblies for 12 strains representing major subpopulations of the partially domesticated yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its wild relative Saccharomyces paradoxus.