Hamdi Alsaffouri, 34, a plantgeneticist from Syria who participated in the Science in Asylum seminars, has written his paper based on data from his doctoral thesis about cotton breeding.
Plantgeneticist Catherine Feuillet of INRA - UBP in Clermont - Ferrand, France, and her colleagues have isolated one of wheat's 42 chromosomes and made a physical map of it, placing more than 1400 molecular landmarks along its 995 million bases.