date:Sep 21, 2018
auto-polyploidization event, meaning that the kiwi duplicated its own genes, rather than an allo-polyploidization event, which results from interbreeding. For example, plants such as bananas, potatoes, and sugarcane are autopolyploid, whereas wheat, cotton, and strawberries are allopolyploid. The authors note that more crops are allopolyploid than autopolyploid.
Humans can learn from the kiwifruit's technique of copying nutritionally important genes. Artificially copying certain genes could hel