Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Assistant Professor Jarkko Salojärvi from NTU SBS, together with a team of Chinese and American researchers made novel insights into the domestication history of lychee and identified the underlying genetics of this important tropical fruit that encode important agricultural traits. The study made by the team was published in Nature Genetics in January 2022, with their significant discoveries on Lychee featured on the cover of the Vol. 54 Issue 1 of Nature Genetics.

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