By Georgina Gustin
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
A team of scientists led by researchers at The Genome Center at Washington University have sequenced the entire gene map of corn, helping unravel the basic biology of the nation's largest crop and providing information that could lead to key developments for corn growers.
The $29.5 million project, funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Departments of agriculture and energy, launched in 2005. The corn genome is similar in size to the human genome and has repetitive characteristics that make it especially difficult to decode. But the project was completed in the scheduled three years and within budget, researchers said.
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