A QUICK and cheap way of comparing genomes could transform animal and plant
breeding programmes and conservation efforts, especially in developing
countries.
“It could have an enormous impact,” says Peter Langridge of the Waite
Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, South Australia. “In a single
assay, you can survey the entire genome of an individual.”
The technique, called diversity array technology, or DArT, was developed by a
team lead by Andrzej Kilian of the Center for the Application of Molecular
Biology to International Agriculture in Canberra.
DArT works by using certain enzymes to chop up the genome of an animal or…
