Scientists have deciphered the genome of wheat

Scientists have finished a long-term project on the decoding of the genome of the "Queen" of crops - wheat or Triticum aestivum. It should be noted that ordinary wheat that feeds 30 percent of the population of the Earth, has a very difficult genetic code.

Scientists report that the genome of the modern wheat is considered to be the product of a large number of cycles hybridization between different kinds. In fact, he actually consists of three identical subgenomic, each of which contains 7 pairs of chromosomes. And discern all the genes were highly neprostotele.com 42 chromosomes also contain duplicate sequence DNA, in consequence of which is very difficult to combine short segments of sequences in a single whole.

The problem turned out to be so difficult that the researchers decided to manually select personal chromosomes to obtain the required sequence. "Wheat genome consists of 17 billion grounds that more than 5 times larger than the planet. It contains 124 thousand genes", - tells Kelly Everso healthy Director of the International consortium for genome sequencing of wheat.

As inform the authors of the study , at the moment the acquired data is only a draft of the order. Until they turned out to be more just to analyze the genes only one of the chromosomes - 3B. The remaining parts of the DNA Eversoul and her colleagues plan to analyze over the next three Letov, says the scientific work of scientists published in the journal Science.

It should be noted that this work has an important value for agricultural programmes aimed at increasing the productivity of crops to meet the demand of the population. Learn in detail wheat genome, scientists can find genetic tags associated with oznacenie qualities of food culture, such as the stability to diseases or grain quality. In addition, researchers will be able to find genes-candidates who have great influence on the main features of plant growth.

Note that during the existence of the consortium of researchers spent on own research wheat around 50 million euros. And for the end of the project will need another 12 million euros. However genetics have no doubt that the acquired information is priceless, and definitely worth the effort and money.

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