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… food-insecure countries around the globe, as well as a cash crop essential to their economies. It also plays an … of the JGI; and Scott Jackson of the University of Georgia sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common bean. That … farmers and a commercial crop for large producers. The team sequenced and assembled a 473-million basepair genome of the …

… an important feature in common with certain other cereal crops: It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest … but other important crops as well. In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for … genome. Sorghum was the second cereal crop with a fully sequenced genome (following rice in 2002) and the first C4 …

Corn and sugarcane are among the major high-yield C4 crops, as are the candidate biofuel feedstocks Miscanthus … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …