Science news articles about 'maize genome'

... Baker Professor of agronomy and lead author for the maize genome sequence publication, coordinates a team ... chunks of DNA that jump around within the genome during normal cell division. They restructure ...

... importance as food, the need to improve yield, and the challenges presented by changing climate, the maize genome of the B73 cultivar is being sequenced. However, because maize has a complex genome ...

... importance as food, the need to improve yield, and the challenges presented by changing climate, the maize genome of the B73 cultivar is being sequenced. However, because maize has a complex genome ...

... 23 chromosomes. The $29.5 million maize sequencing project began in 2005 and is funded ... complicating sequencing efforts. A working draft of the maize genome, unveiled by the same group of scientists ...

... variants among 27 diverse inbred maize lines. The lines selected for study included a ... studies," said Buckler. The first complete sequence of the maize genome appears in the same issue of Science.

... . "We can now use transposons to probe for variations in the epigenetic landscape of the maize genome. It may turn out that forgetting can be as important as remembering. Our findings suggest that ...

... optical mapping system was "incredibly cost-effective and invaluable in dissecting the infamously complex maize genome." Zhou and Schwartz were the principal authors of a companion article in PLoS ...