date:May 10, 2013
ive oil isn't new, the team's approach offers several improvements. For instance, the olive, canola, and sunflower DNA barcodes that the scientists developedto serve as the basis for comparing these plants' DNAare based on not just a single olive tree or sunflower or canola plant. Instead, each barcode is a broadly representative composite, known as consensus DNA.
Olive oil is made up of triglycerides, which are molecules composed of fatty acids. These fatty acids are the focus of the approach