2. Transgenic strawberries have fewer genes than non-transgenic strawberries.
Transgenic strawberries have some advantages: for example, they look better and have higher yield.
4. Transgenic strawberries are fuller and bigger than non-transgenic strawberries.
Transgenic strawberry is to introduce foreign DNA into an important cash crop strawberry, and improve the transformation efficiency through the combination of different parameters. This method is not only convenient for researchers to study a large number of strawberry gene functions, but also very useful for improving the nutritional value of strawberries in the long run.
The commercial strawberries that most consumers are familiar with belong to octoploid, which means that strawberries contain eight sets of chromosomes. By using a relative plant of strawberry, the researchers found that a special type of alpine wild strawberry is very easy to transform. This special type of strawberry has two sets of chromosomes and a small set of polygenes.
Achieving this conversion rate is the result of technological innovation and close attention to test details. Because of its small genome, short regeneration period and small plant shape, this wild strawberry genome is an ideal research model for commercial strawberries. Its rapid growth of roots and buds, large amount of seeds and easy planting make this strawberry an ideal candidate plant for large-scale research on gene function.
References:
Transgenic Strawberry-Baidu Encyclopedia Transgenic Strawberry-Baidu Encyclopedia