An international team of scientists has conducted the most comprehensive genetic analysis of the plant world to date. Research to date on almost ten thousand flowering plants shows, among other things, that pumpkins and roses are closely related.
Until now, experts assumed that pumpkins were probably relatives of beech trees. The long-term goal of the international genome project is to create a family tree of all 330,000 known flowering plants.
After years of work, with the participation of researchers from Munich, cell nuclear DNA was extracted from plant material in museums around the world and the genetic information read out, as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) announced on Thursday.
Look for connections between species
Some of the plant samples examined were hundreds of years old. Using this enormous amount of data, the researchers then tried to clarify the evolutionary links between the species. Such information is therefore also important for improving crop breeding.
Source: Krone
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