Wheat Genome Sequencing Gets Major Boost
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 10:32
in Biology & Nature
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) announced today 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. The new data will help speed up the delivery of a high quality reference sequence of the bread wheat genome.