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How cauliflower got its curd

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For a variety of reasons, genetic understanding of the steps leading to domestication of the nutrient-rich edible arrested inflorescence of cauliflower — its curd — has proven relatively intractable. A genomic study now unravels the details.

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Fig. 1: Way to a curd.

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    Alisdair R. Fernie & Mustafa Bulut

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Fernie, A.R., Bulut, M. How cauliflower got its curd. Nat Genet (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-024-01768-w

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