A British- and U.S.-led international consortium says it has sequenced the first member of the wheat and barley group of grasses.
The scientists, led by Britain’s John Innes Center, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University, said the genome sequencing was of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon.
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