All eyes and ears on the corn genome

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In 2005 NSF DOE and USDA funded the sequencing of the corn genome. Credit: 2008 Jupiter Images Corp.
In 2005, NSF, DOE, and USDA funded the sequencing of the corn genome. Credit: © 2008 Jupiter Images Corp.

A consortium of researchers led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., announced today the completion of a draft sequence of the corn genome.


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