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A visit with Karen Cone, Professor of Biological Sciences
Why this Research is Important
Topics:
agriculture
agriculturegenetics
If researchers can better understand how this DNA packaging occurs, they might eventually be able to control the process to their advantage. As Cone observes, “being able to understand that process might give us a chance down the road to manipulate it, to potentially improve features of the plant for crop production.”