University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Nebraska Team Develops Technique to Speed Up Corn Gene Identification
June 04, 2024
June 04, 2024
LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release:
The genome of a corn plant contains almost 40,000 genes, thousands more than the human genome. But 15 years after the publication of the first draft of the corn genome, the roles 98% of those genes play in making a corn plant or determining how corn will respond to different growing conditions remain unknown.
Conventional methods to figure out the job of ea . . .
The genome of a corn plant contains almost 40,000 genes, thousands more than the human genome. But 15 years after the publication of the first draft of the corn genome, the roles 98% of those genes play in making a corn plant or determining how corn will respond to different growing conditions remain unknown.
Conventional methods to figure out the job of ea . . .