Called “Rye” in GBIF
Secale is a genus of the grass tribe Triticeae, which is related to barley (Hordeum) and wheat (Triticum). The genus includes cultivated species such as rye as well as weedy and wild rye species. The best-known species of the genus is the cultivated rye, S. cereale, which is grown as a grain and forage crop. Wild and weedy rye species help provide a huge gene pool that can be used for improvement of the cultivated rye.
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Scientists mapped thousands of DNA 'switches' in wheat and other cereal grains, finding that over half of the species-specific ones came from jumping genes called transposable elements, especially in root tissue. This helps explain how cereal crops evolved new traits after genome duplication and could guide future breeding for better roots.
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