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Complex wheat genome decoded
August 20 , 2018
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- Team of international researchers including 18 Indian scientists for first time have decoded wheat genome.
- The reference genome decoded covers 94% (14.5 Gb) of entire wheat genome.
- This project was financially supported by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
- The bread wheat has a complex hexaploid genome which is 40 times larger than that of the rice genome and 5 times larger than the human genome.
- The availability of high quality reference genome would accelerate the breeding of climate-resilient wheat varieties to feed the ever-increasing world population and help address global food security.
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