Sunflower genome holds the promise of sustainable agriculture

Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:28 in Mathematics & Economics

The sunflower family includes a number of valuable food crops. Yet the sunflower family is the only one of a handful of economically important plant families where a reference genome is not available to enable the breeding of crops better suited to their growing environment or consumers tastes. A new research project will create a reference genome for the sunflower family.

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