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A high quality bread wheat reference sequence will be available in less than two years
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Phys.org
Publication Date
2016-01-06
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 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.
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http://phys.org/news/2016-01-high-quality-bread-wheat-sequence.html