Germany Steps Up Its Wheat Sequencing Effort
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 05:42
in Biology & Nature
The German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture announced today that it would award 1.5 million Euros to a project aimed at providing a reference sequence for two wheat chromosomes, part of the international effort to decipher the bread wheat genome, led by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC).