An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome. Asiatic pear, also known as Chinese pear, Korean pear, Japanese pear, Taiwan pear and sand pear “Our role on the team was to work on the strategy for sequencing, analyzing the data, understanding some of the biological processes, and writing the manuscript,” said Dr Schuyler Korban, a plant molecular geneticist...
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