DNA time stamps reveal the strawberry’s surprising origins

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Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. The technique revealed that modern strawberries were assembled through multiple ancient genome-mergi…

Many of the world's most important crops have unusually complex genomes created through repeated rounds of whole-genome duplication and hybridization. These so-called polyploid genomes contain multip… [+6191 chars]