Detailed new genome for maize shows the plant has deep resources for continued adaptation
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 10:02
in Biology & Nature
A new, much more detailed reference genome for maize, or corn, as it is called in the U.S., will be published in Nature today. In its accounting of the sequence of DNA letters in the plant's 10 chromosomes, the new version helps us understand as never before why maize, and not some other plant, is today the most productive and widely grown crop in the world.