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Peach genome offers insights into breeding strategies for biofuels crops

2013-03-24 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate "biofuel crops" from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted. Domesticating these as crops requires a deep understanding of the physiology and genetics of trees, and scientists are turning to long-domesticated fruit trees for hints. The relationship between a peach and a poplar may not be obvious at first glance, but to botanists both trees are part of the rosid superfamily,...

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