Looking at oil palm’s genome for keys to productivity

argylesock says… This is interesting science which could be enormous. The papers in the journal Nature are descriptive. They don’t offer a design for genetic modification (GM, also called genetic engineering). But the data published there opens that possibility for the oil palm, alongside the possibility of marker-assisted selection (MAB). As Carl Zimmer points out here, any kind of breeding that makes oil palms oilier could have huge consequences on the land.

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