Title: Significant Work Still Needed to Really Crack Wheat’s Genetic Code

Significant Work Still Needed to Really Crack Wheat’s Genetic Code
31 August 2010 - International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
The International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium (IWGSC), an international consortium of wheat growers, public and private breeders and scientists, strongly disagrees with implications that the sequence reads made available by a UK team, led by Professor Neil Hall, represent in any way the sequence of the wheat genome or that this work is comparable to genome sequences for rice, maize, or soybean.



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Categories: :newsroom:August 2010, :newsroom:Wheat News
Date: August 31, 2010; 11:58:34 AM EDT
Author Name: John Bakum
Author ID: John