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Biological Chemistry

Bayer Sequences Canola Genome

by Melody Voith
October 19, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 42

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Credit: Bayer
Bayer CropScience researchers examine canola plants.
Credit: Bayer
Bayer CropScience researchers examine canola plants.

Bayer CropScience says it has sequenced the entire genome of the canola (rapeseed) plant, Brassica napus. Bayer will use its new insights to modify canola, the second largest oilseed crop after soybeans, through molecular breeding and genetic modification. Bayer collaborated with researchers from Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzen, the Netherlands-based Keygene, and the University of Queensland, in Australia.

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