The sunflower's rapid evolutionary transformation

ENN
Jun 19, 2018, 8:23 am44 pts
A new CU Boulder-led study sheds light on the genetic mechanisms that allowed sunflowers to undergo a relatively rapid evolutionary transition from wild to domesticated in just over 5,000 years.

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