Corn Genetics Research Exposes Mechanism Behind Traits Becoming Silent

ENN
Nov 21, 2017, 1:48 pm24 pts
For more than a century, plant geneticists have been studying maize as a model system to understand the rules governing the inheritance of traits, and a team of researchers recently unveiled a previously unknown mechanism that triggers gene silencing in corn.

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