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RogerEvenBove
07-29-2012, 06:47 PM
Genome of a fruit besieged

The banana genome has been unpeeled. The genetic makeup of Musa acuminata, a fertile banana species that gave rise to the seedless Cavendish and other clonal varieties people eat today, sheds light on the plant’s evolutionary history and ripening process. This information may also help researchers boost the crop’s resistance to fungal and viral pathogens threatening its survival. M. acuminata has 36,542 protein-encoding genes and 235 genes that make small snippets of protein-regulating RNA, ...

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Genome Of A Fruit Besieged - Science News (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/342617/title/Genome_of_a_fruit_besieged)

PR-Giants
07-29-2012, 07:51 PM
Do you have a subscription, and if so is the article available now or do we need to wait until Aug 11 ?

RogerEvenBove
07-30-2012, 01:44 AM
Do you have a subscription, and if so is the article available now or do we need to wait until Aug 11 ?

It's just the one paragraph.

PR-Giants
07-30-2012, 11:13 AM
It's just the one paragraph.

That is hard to believe.

Do you have a subscription?

RogerEvenBove
07-31-2012, 01:27 AM
Yes - I have a subscription to the print edition and the email newsletter. I don't remember what conditions were on the email.

PR-Giants
10-23-2012, 06:03 PM
The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants : Nature : Nature Publishing Group (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7410/full/nature11241.html)

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