• Question: What is the best plant you have looked at?

    Asked by Blue659 to Nikolai on 13 Mar 2015.
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      Nikolai Adamski answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Well, I am working specifically with wheat, so I would say: Wheat 🙂

      Having said that I always find it quite amazing how much variation you can see within one (plant) species. It’s similar to people really: We are all one species, but there is a lot of variation there (short, fat, thin, tall, dark, blond, brunette, etc.). Equally in wheat (and other species) there is a huge variation in morphology (i.e. what the plant looks like).
      One of the things I want to understand is this underlying variation and how we can use it to improve current wheat varieties.
      I hope that answers your question.

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