Genome mapped of durum wheat

Israel’s NRGene made a major contribution to completion of the project to assemble the 12 billion base pairs of durum wheat genome – the source of semolina, the key ingredient of pasta.  It will result in better varieties of durum wheat – one of the world’s major food sources.

http://nrgene.com/genetic-secrets/

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