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Molecular Breeding Solutions of Flax

Flax (scientific name: Linum usitatissimum L.) is a self-pollinated annual herb. It can be divided into three types: fiber flax, oil flax and oil fiber flax. It prefers cool and humid, cold-resistant but not high-temperature resistant. The number of haploid chromosomes of flax is n = 15, and the genome is approximately 370 Mb.

Flax is a source of food, medicine, feed and fiber. Linseed oil is composed of five main fatty acids: palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid (α-linolenic acid, ALA, >55%). The only plant source of omega-3 (ALA), which is very beneficial to the health of humans and other animals, is flaxseed. In addition, the high proportion of ALA gives the oil the drying characteristics needed to make paint, varnish and linoleum floors. The lignans contained in flaxseed have been shown to have beneficial properties in preventing some cancers and reducing the relative risk factors of heart disease. Flax is the earliest natural plant fiber used by humans, due to its remarkable characteristics such as sweat absorption, good air permeability and harmlessness to the human body.

Because flax has so many benefits and plays an important role in agriculture, the breeding of flax in demand has attracted public attention. Modern flax breeding methods include hybridization, induced mutation, interspecific hybridization, male sterility, ploidy breeding, tissue culture, gene transformation, marker-assisted selection and so on. Molecular breeding assists traditional breeding to improve crop varieties, break through the boundaries of traditional breeding, create new traits or new varieties, breed special high-value products, and increase agricultural output value. For example, crop varieties with environmentally friendly characteristics, such as disease resistance, insect resistance and herbicide resistance; crop varieties with environmentally tolerant, such as drought-tolerant, cold-tolerant, heat-resistant.

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Lifeasible has contributed many years of dedicated work to the exploration and optimization of modern breeding methods of flax, proud to provide competitive molecular breeding services for flax, and provide you with the best solutions to carry out your research projects.

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Lifeasible is oriented to national strategic needs and people's livelihood needs, relying on a technology platform to establish a comprehensive service center in the agricultural field, and attaching importance to basic technology and new technology research. The scope of services covers molecular biology, sequencing, genetic marker development, bioinformatics analysis and other crop molecular breeding related biotechnologies. If you want to know more, please contact us immediately.

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