Monday, November 14, 2016 - Viviana June talks about hybrid vigor
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Do you know that most of the corn you eat are hybrids? Do you know that Ligers are generally bigger than both tigers and lions? Why? This is because of something called hybrid vigor. Viviana June talks about hybrid vigor and her work studying the circadian rhythm in Arabidopsis plant hybrids. There is also lots of Kale love.
Fact clarification: Arabidopsis species have a genome size of roughly 135 Mbp
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