Genome analysis reveals:
Pumpkins and roses are closely related
An international team of scientists has produced the most comprehensive genetic analysis of the plant world to date. The study of almost ten thousand flowering plants to date shows, among other things, that pumpkins and roses are closely related.
Until now, experts had assumed that pumpkins were more closely related to beech trees. The long-term goal of the international genome project is to create a family tree of all 330,000 known flowering plants.
In years of work, the Munich researchers extracted DNA from the cell nucleus from plant material in museums around the world and read out the genetic information, as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) announced on Thursday.
Searching for links between species
Some of the plant samples examined were hundreds of years old. Using this huge amount of data, the researchers then attempted to clarify the evolutionary links between the species. Such information is therefore also important for the breeding improvement of crops.
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