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UF/IFAS researchers on team that sequenced, assembled, and annotated loblolly pine genome

News Source:	UF/IFAS News
Date:	2014/03/21 09:05:00 GMT-4
Link:	http://news.ifas.ufl.edu/2014/03/ufifas-researchers-on-team-that-sequenced-assembled-and-annotated-loblolly-pine-genome/
Description:	To look at the humble loblolly pine – grown in neat rows on large farms throughout the southeastern U.S. and milled for things like building lumber and paper – you would never think that its genetic code is seven times larger than a human’s. That is just one of the things researchers, including two from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the UF Genetics Institute, learned as they sequenced the loblolly pine genome for the first time. They also discovered genes resistant to a devastating pine forest disease.

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