I Don't Know Why This Is Interesting
PARIS - Critics who praise the "complexity" of red Burgundy and Champagne are on target.
A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and many red wines from France's Burgundy region and around the world — and it has about 30,000 genes in its DNA. That's more than the human genome, which contains some 20,000 to 25,000 genes.
Scientists have already mapped the genome for rice and other crops, but this was the first time a fruit has been mapped, Wincker said. It took the team, based in France's national genetic-sequencing laboratory in the Paris suburb of Evry, nearly two years to complete.
A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and many red wines from France's Burgundy region and around the world — and it has about 30,000 genes in its DNA. That's more than the human genome, which contains some 20,000 to 25,000 genes.
Scientists have already mapped the genome for rice and other crops, but this was the first time a fruit has been mapped, Wincker said. It took the team, based in France's national genetic-sequencing laboratory in the Paris suburb of Evry, nearly two years to complete.
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8 Comments:
I'll drink to that!
Two years on a grape?!? I hope something good comes out of all that research... :)
Actually, I have no idea at all on how to comment on that. Sorry. I am speechless
Yes, there isn't much to comment on here. Just a strange thought that scientists are getting to the bottom of what makes a grape dna-wise. I guess it was more important research than say..for breast cancer or Alzheimers? Maybe these scientists graduated at the bottom of their class and their names got drawn for this work instead of the important stuff. I don't know...
I guess this is so they can alter the genetic code to keep mutations under control... that way we will never have to be subjected to the California raisins again! ;-)
Haahaa, Markec!
I'm speechless along with John. ...more genes than a human, who woulda thunk?
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