Crop Circle Genetics

Two handouts were available,

Cereal Evolution:

Cereal crops are our major food source. Rice alone is the staple food of over 50% of the world's population and together with wheat and maize makes up of 60% of the world's total food supply. Other cereals (e.g. foxtail and pearl millet, oats, sorghum, sugarcane, rye, triticale) are also important in many areas of the world, particularly in developing countries Thus an understanding of the biology, genetics, evolution and history of this crop group is of fundamental social importance....read entire handout

Understanding Crop Circle Genetics:

Linear or circular maps can be made that show the location of genes in relation to one another. Our circular genetic maps have helped us to understand how, during evolution of the different cereals, large blocks of genes have been moved around and the primeval cereal genome has been reorganised in different ways in the various modern cereal species.......read entire handout