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Friday, November 20, 2009

Scientists Crack Corn Code: Reference Genome of Maize, Most Important US Crop

A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in ...  > full story

Termite Creates Sustainable Monoculture Fungus-Farming

Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced ...  > full story

Amaizing: Corn Genome Decoded

In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of ...  > full story

Scientists Decode Maize Genome

Scientists have deciphered the complete genetic code of the maize plant for the first time. The researchers, who have been collaborating for the past four years on the Maize Genome Sequencing ...  > full story
 

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