Scientists Sequence Genome of Grass That Can be a Biofuel Model Crop

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 14:35 in Biology & Nature

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will enable researchers to develop hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops.

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