What we can learn here with Peanut Genetics is a Science Lesson in how this system of Genetics works....You take Pre-existing data/info and mix it up and get different shapes, sizes and colors-- but the Peanuts are still Peanuts....And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind... Genesis 1:12
"Like many other crops, the cultivated peanut is of hybrid origin and has a polyploid genome that contains essentially complete sets of chromosomes from two ancestral species: Arachis duranensis and A. ipaensis.
Its story began several thousand years ago in South America, where A. duranensis and A. ipaensis genomes merged in a rare genetic event.
The result is a complex genomic blend that’s nearly as big as the human genome, which is about 3 billion base pairs.
The scientists also recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.
This revealed an interesting pattern of DNA swapping and deletions (eliminations) taking place in the offspring plants that likely explains the diverse seed size, shape, color and other traits seen in commercial peanuts today.
The DNA swapping is unusual in that it occurs between the two ‘subgenomes’ of the two contributing wild species — something that’s possible due to their high similarity."
SciNews
"Like many other crops, the cultivated peanut is of hybrid origin and has a polyploid genome that contains essentially complete sets of chromosomes from two ancestral species: Arachis duranensis and A. ipaensis.
Its story began several thousand years ago in South America, where A. duranensis and A. ipaensis genomes merged in a rare genetic event.
The result is a complex genomic blend that’s nearly as big as the human genome, which is about 3 billion base pairs.
The scientists also recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.
This revealed an interesting pattern of DNA swapping and deletions (eliminations) taking place in the offspring plants that likely explains the diverse seed size, shape, color and other traits seen in commercial peanuts today.
The DNA swapping is unusual in that it occurs between the two ‘subgenomes’ of the two contributing wild species — something that’s possible due to their high similarity."
SciNews
