About bread wheat genome
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Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a globally important crop, accounting for 20 per cent of the calories consumed by humans….Here we report the sequencing of its large, 17-gigabase-pair, hexaploid genome using 454 pyrosequencing, and comparison of this with the sequences of diploid ancestral and progenitor genomes. We identified between 94,000 and 96,000 genes.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7426/full/nature11650.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20121129