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A new study on the genomic signatures of adaptation in crop plants can help predict how crop varieties respond to stress from their environments. Researchers applied a drought stress to hundreds of different varieties of sorghum plants to test whether genomic analysis could help predict what varieties would continue to thrive under drought. Researchers cataloged the findings in a database that aims to help sorghum breeders with limited resources in developing countries have better predictions of what sorghum varieties will thrive in the environment and in a growing season's forecasted weather.
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