{"id":9498,"date":"2017-11-06T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:27:28","slug":"coconut-gene-map-may-lead-to-high-yielding-varieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/coconut-gene-map-may-lead-to-high-yielding-varieties\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut gene map may lead to high yielding varieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have completely sequenced and assembled the genome of coconut, an advance that may lead to high-yielding, drought-enduring, and disease-resistant varieties. \u201cWe found 282 unique genome families in the coconut,\u201d Yang Yaodong, a researcher with the academy, was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe completion of the genome sequencing is like finishing drawing a map of coconut genes,\u201d Yang said. \u201cFollowing the map, scientists will be able to breed more high-yielding, drought-enduring, and disease-resistant species, with a shorter breeding cycle,\u201d said Yang.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the genome sequencing project, that began more than four years ago, were published in Giga Science journal. A genome is the full complement of an organism\u2019s DNA complex molecules that direct the formation and function of all living organisms.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have completely sequenced and assembled the genome of coconut, an advance that may lead to high-yielding, drought-enduring, and disease-resistant varieties. \u201cWe found 282 unique genome families in the coconut,\u201d Yang Yaodong, a researcher with the academy, was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency. \u201cThe completion of the genome sequencing is like [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}