Your Christmas tree may not only seriously affect you in height, but also its genome may affect you Norway spruce has two billion base pairs. It is a popular Christmas tree in Europe, which can reach a height of more than 30 meters. The new genome sequencing is more than six times that of human It's a huge project.
The genome of spruce, the largest ever sequenced.
This month, researchers proposed a $2.4 billion basic genome of loblolly pine. At one meeting, 22 bioinformatics reports provided a $2.1 billion base genome sequence containing white spruce, white spruce.
Because of the huge genome sequence, researchers use powerful sequencer and new sequence analysis software It can help the breeding genome produce trees with better wood quality and insect resistance, says John Middleton Mackay of Laval University in Quebec, who once owned the spruce genome.
Spruce may pile up over millions of years to repeat existing DNA sequences Other plants and animals tend to eliminate these duplications.