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Ragweed leads to DNA breakthrough in combating invasive species

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Learning how a major central west pest plant and a serious annual source of hay-fever, ragweed, is able to quickly adapt to new environments could help combat invasive species throughout Australia.

Researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne found the rapid adaptation of invasive plants is driven by their ability to gain and lose genes, a phenomenon known as “copy number ...


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