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Maize Genome Mapped
from Nature News
Plant biologists have something special to be thankful for this US Thanksgiving Day. The genome of maize (corn)--a staple crop first introduced by Native Americans to the European settlers centuries ago--has finally been sequenced.
The genetic secrets of maize, one of the world's most widely grown grains, should accelerate efforts to develop improved crop varieties to meet the world's growing hunger for food, animal feed and fuel.
The genome "is really a tremendous resource," says John Doebley, a maize geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the project. "It gives us a tool for mapping genes that we didn't have before."
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