Plants protect their most essential genes - Beating the odds in mutation’s game of chance
Channel: Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
Date: 2022-01-13

Beating the odds in mutation’s game of chance
Discovery that plants protect their most essential genes transforms our view of evolution


Mutations of DNA do not occur as randomly as preciously assumed, according to new research from Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen in Germany and University of California Davis in the US. The findings, published now in the journal Nature, have the potential to dramatically change our view of evolution. The insights have far-reaching implications, from better knowledge of crop domestication to predictions of the mutational landscape in cancers.


Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04269-6