A study aimed at mapping the DNA of sunflower can be used to create new varieties of food and biofuel production.
The researchers are intending to breed hybrid sunflower seed standard with silverleaf (silver leaf) has source from Texas (USA), to create flowers bright yellow sunflower, seed and delicious trunk filled with sugar to complex can be converted into ethanol.

Wild sunflower species resistant silverleaf term, may be higher to 4.5 m and more than 10 cm in diameter. Mr. Loren Rieseberg, a professor of botany from the University of British Columbia (Canada) and chaired the study, said: “Because this plant is most closely related species of sunflowers are grown, so perhaps changing some features not very complicated.

Research on the genes of sunflower cost 10.5 million dollars. The goal is to locate genes make important attributes such as proportion of oil in the seeds, the flowering, resistance, insect resistance and limited. Participants projected mapping of their genes with more than 24,000 species of sunflower sunflowers, vegetables lettuce, a-ti-number, chrysanthemum, grass pollen, dandelions … Scientists hope that in four years, they can develop the basis for a breeding program, in which understanding of plant genes can significantly reduce time development of hybrids. According to Larry Kleingartner, director of the National Sunflower Association of America, Rieseberg’s work (with the collaboration of specialists Steve Knapp of the University of Georgia) is very useful.

Ministry of sunflower genes 3.5 billion letters long, slightly larger than the genes people. The exact mapping of sunflower DNA sequence may help to improve crops, control weeds and help develop varieties made of wood. The increase in trunk road complex of sunflower seed silverleaf will make them become a source of raw materials for ethanol production. Currently, ethanol production plants in many countries are using corn as the main fuel source. The European connection concerns about food security for the use of corn to ethanol has forced the industry to attempt to diversify the sources of raw materials.