Decode the genome bamboo Moso

Chinese scientists have reported that they have successfully decoded the genome of the moso bamboo, hoping to improve the bamboo and its application to replace wood.

The results of scientific research have been published by Jiang Zehui, who led the study in the online version of Nature Genetics.

The research team began working with the genome of this bamboo species since 2007, thereby discovering important knowledge about the growth of moso bamboo from a genetic point of view.

Tre moso - (Photos: bananas)

Tre moso has the scientific name Phyllostachys pubescens is quite beautiful bamboo, many applications in life but have a very strange development.

In the first 5 years of planting it seems that no moso bamboo has any signs of growth. Then like a miracle when it suddenly grew up at a speed of 70cm, even 120cm per day. Within 40 days it can reach a height of more than 20m.

In fact, within the first 5 years, the moso bamboo roots kept growing silently, so that at the right time, it created a spectacular breakthrough on the ground.

Moso is widely used in paper industry, construction, textile industry and knitting .

Citing geneticist Han Bin, ChinaView website said, the successful decoding of the moso bamboo genome will help it better serve people through many new applications. Another interesting thing is that decoding the moso bamboo genome will help reduce the lack of food for pandas.