Junk DNA and the Strawberry Genome

The old-fashioned strawberry is having a renaissance thanks to new genetic research.William & Mary Assistant Professor of Biology Josh Puzey and two of his students joined a team of researchers to complete the first chromosome-scale assembly of the strawberry genome. Their work, recently published in the journal Nature Genetics, traces the origin of the North American strawberry and identifies a quirk in the genome that could fundamentally change how the fruit is bred.Read the story here: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2019/in-nature-the-science-of-a-perfect-strawberry.php