U of A to sequence 1,000 plant species

EDMONTON, AB, December 20, 2008/ Troy Media/ – The University of Alberta, in a joint international venture between the Government of Alberta, Musea Ventures and the Beijing Genomics Institute, is undertaking the task of sequencing the genomes of 1,000 plant species. Dr. Gane Wong, the new iCORE Chair in Biosystems Informatics at the University of Alberta, [...]