{"id":909929,"date":"2026-06-02T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/scientists-crack-alfalfas-chromosome-mystery-after-decades-of-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:14:00","slug":"scientists-crack-alfalfas-chromosome-mystery-after-decades-of-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/scientists-crack-alfalfas-chromosome-mystery-after-decades-of-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Crack Alfalfa\u2019s Chromosome Mystery After Decades of Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously thought. A long-standing puzzle in plant evolution is starting to come together. Scientists have used a powerful imaging technique to trace how chromosome numbers changed in Medicago, a group that includes alfalfa&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-crack-alfalfas-chromosome-mystery-after-decades-of-debate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously thought. A long-standing puzzle in plant evolution is starting to come together. Scientists have used a powerful imaging technique to trace how chromosome numbers changed in Medicago, a group that includes alfalfa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27444,3807,192],"tags":[8807,10539],"class_list":["post-909929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crack","category-scientists","category-sports","tag-crack","tag-scientists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}