Posted on 09/28/2009 9:49:58 AM PDT by underthestreetlite
A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable — the potato.
The draft of the potato genome released last week represents the work of more than 50 scientists from 16 institutions and will provide a starting point for other researchers to develop sturdier, more nutritious potatoes.
That's important because the potato is widely grown and plays a central role in feeding the world's 6.3 billion people, said Robin Buell, a Michigan State University plant biologist who worked on the project. The East Lansing school announced the results in the U.S.
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium began work in 2006. It has 16 institutional members in Argentina, Britain, Chile, China, India, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Russia and the United States. Michigan State and Virginia Tech are formal members of the consortium, and some work was done at the University of Wisconsin.
The potato genome has 12 chromosomes with 840 million base pairs, about a quarter the size of the human genome. The draft covers 95 percent of potato genes.
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My father never graduated high school, not too many people can match what he has now.
My father never graduated high school, not too many people can match what he has now.
I hope you appreciate the difference.
It was careless enough of me that I didn't bother to correct myself and say "lack of correlation," although now I think i can honestly say "negative correlation," having worked among some of the best educated people in their fields for most of my career and seeing how "useless" is a word that is too benign to describe their "contribution" (or should I say "negative contribution") to the well being of their neighbors, their nations, anyone but themselves.
This isn't your daddy's "higher education."
Acceptions to the rule are gratefully acknowledged.
Maybe they’ll genetically engineer one with a barcalounger built into it.
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