Sentences with phrase «as the barley genome»

This was a daunting task, as the barley genome is almost twice the size of the human genome and 80 percent of it is composed of highly repetitive sequences, which can not be assigned accurately to specific positions in the genome without considerable extra effort.

Not exact matches

Gale and his colleagues were the first to develop restriction fragment length polymorphisms for analysing the genomes of cereal crops, and have built on that expertise to construct detailed genetic maps of barley, rye and pearl millet, as well as wheat.

Having now surmounted the corn challenge gives researchers confidence to tackle even more complex crop genomes, such as wheat and barley — other potential weapons in fighting global hunger.

«As for barley, the dehydrin genes seem to be very plastic, some of them changing at a high frequency over generations, and we intend to look into this plasticity in more detail now that we have the genome knowledge that we lacked before.

Advancements in such genome sequencing have enabled the scientists to make comparisons of gene similarity between closely related species — wheat and barley, for example — and more distantly related species such as wheat and maize.

Genome sequencing has helped scientists understand pets such as dogs and cats; agricultural animals like cows and pigs; crop plants such as rice, corn, barley; and a host of other living things.