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The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.

Howard Dill, a Canadian pumpkin breeder, crossed and then certified the Dill’s Atlantic Giant pumpkin variety about 40 years ago.

And Nigeria has “totally lacked any indication of political will” to go after Fulani militias, which are backed by the country’s powerful cattle breeders, says Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute.

So how did a small plant breeder in Somerset end up selling tropical plants all over the world?

If plant breeders can learn to trigger or replicate this activation of WUS-D1, it may be possible to create new wheat varieties that produce more kernels per plant.