Wheat genome sequencing gets major boost
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 10:26
in Biology & Nature
The production of a whole genome assembly of bread wheat, the most widely grown cereal in the world, significantly accelerating global research into crop improvement, experts say. The project consisted of producing a whole genome assembly of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring based on Illumina short sequence reads assembled with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM software.