Wageningen University & Research: Stress causes a reaction in plant DNA

2024-02-21 13:00

Plants are able to adapt to extreme circumstances by copying or deleting pieces of DNA. Plant researchers call this copy number variation: the variation in the number of DNA copies is a genome. Sometimes it consists of tiny pieces of DNA of only fifty base pairs. Sometimes hundreds of genes are copied, according to WUR.

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