date:Aug 13, 2019
question. But the research does explore how the avocado has changed genetically since it became its own species, branching off from other magnoliids.
The paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the avocado experienced two ancient polyploidy events, in which the organisms entire genome got copied. Many of the duplicated genes were eventually deleted.
But some went on to develop new and useful functions, and these genes are still found in the avocado tod