Researchers Re-sequence Six Corn Varieties, Find Some Genes Missing
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 14:01
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at Iowa State University, China Agricultural University and the Beijing Genomics Institute in China recently re-sequenced and compared six elite inbred corn (maize) lines, including the parents of the most productive commercial hybrids in China and found entire genes that were missing from one line to another.