{"id":173631,"date":"2023-10-06T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/natural-genetically-modified-crops-grasses-take-evolutionary-shortcut-by-borrowing-genes-from-their-neighbors"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:33:04","slug":"natural-genetically-modified-crops-grasses-take-evolutionary-shortcut-by-borrowing-genes-from-their-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/natural-genetically-modified-crops-grasses-take-evolutionary-shortcut-by-borrowing-genes-from-their-neighbors","title":{"rendered":"Natural genetically modified crops: Grasses take evolutionary shortcut by borrowing genes from their neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-genetically-modified-crops-grasses-take-evolutionary-shortcut-by-borrowing-genes-from-their-neighbors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grass may transfer genes from their neighbors in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Research, led by the University of Sheffield, is the first to show the frequency at which grasses incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes through a process known as lateral gene transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen genetic secrets give them an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/evolutionary+advantage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">evolutionary advantage<\/a> by allowing them to grow faster, bigger or stronger and adapt to new environments quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grass may transfer genes from their neighbors in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed. Research, led by the University of Sheffield, is the first to show the frequency at which grasses incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes through a process known as lateral gene transfer. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173631","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}