This healthy edition of Students of Ethnobotany comes from the spicy Melissa Tong. Zingiber officinale, commonly known as ginger, is believed to originate from the tropics of Southeast Asia, around...
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Genetic and species diversity of crops, trees, livestock, fish, pollinators, microbes etc etc
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Traditionally, Sicilian blood oranges (Citrus sinensis) have been associated with cardiovascular health, and consumption has been shown to prevent obesity in mice fed a high-fat diet. Despite increasing consumer interest in these health-promoting attributes, production of blood oranges remains unreliable due largely to a dependency on cold for full color formation. We show that Sicilian blood orange arose by insertion of a Copia-like retrotransposon adjacent to a gene encoding Ruby, a MYB transcriptional activator of anthocyanin production. Via John Innes Centre, Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research Delete the scoop?
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