The National Plant Genome Initiative – and the research effort to map the corn genome – has resulted in significant economic and environmental dividends for farmers and society, according to the National Corn Growers Association.
Corn-genome initiative lauded
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The corn gene-mapping effort, which ran parallel to mapping of the human genome, opened a new frontier for corn that’s still being explored today, according to the National Corn Growers Association.
At 2.5 billion base pairs covering 10 chromosomes, the corn genome's size is comparable to that of the human genome.
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