To explore effectively in Proteomics, elaborative Interactomic data to be build.

I am too lazy to cite references, but the grape project has already helped vine growers by identifying the ancestral varieties used to create the modern vine. Most were already known, but one ancestor was a surprise - a poorly regarded Balkan grape vine. This gives the vine horticulturalists an unsuspected source to examine for new traits. Which is badly needed, because the modern grape vine is very susceptible to many diseases.

A much more useful project has been going on since 1990, creating 'synthetic' wheat from its wild ancestral species. Wheat is polyploid, meaning that it is a strange chimera that contains chromosomes from several plant species. It is ordinarily unable to cross breed with its ancestors. The original wheat plant was a lucky accident that went through a severe genetic bottleneck and lost a number of traits through ordinary genetic drift. By recreating the original cross, using genetic engineering, scientists are recovering the lost traits (resistance to fungus infections, etc) and breeding them back into wheat.

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