{"id":122905,"date":"2021-05-22T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/dna-markers-uncovered-in-grape-genetics-research-reveal-what-makes-the-perfect-flower"},"modified":"2021-05-22T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T00:22:27","slug":"dna-markers-uncovered-in-grape-genetics-research-reveal-what-makes-the-perfect-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/dna-markers-uncovered-in-grape-genetics-research-reveal-what-makes-the-perfect-flower","title":{"rendered":"DNA Markers Uncovered in Grape Genetics Research Reveal What Makes the Perfect Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-markers-uncovered-in-grape-genetics-research-reveal-what-makes-the-perfect-flower2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it\u2019s only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8000 years ago, breeding has continued to be a gamble.<\/p>\n<p>When today\u2019s growers cultivate new varieties \u2013 trying to produce better-tasting and more disease-resistant grapes \u2013 it takes two to four years for breeders to learn whether they have the genetic ingredients for the perfect flower.<\/p>\n<p>Females set fruit, but produce sterile pollen. Males have stamens for pollen, but lack fruit. The perfect flower, however, carries both sex genes and can self-pollinate. These hermaphroditic varieties generally yield bigger and better-tasting berry clusters, and they\u2019re the ones researchers use for additional cross-breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it\u2019s only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8000 years ago, breeding has continued to be a gamble. When today\u2019s growers cultivate new varieties \u2013 trying to produce better-tasting and more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}