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Fri, 18/05/2012 - 16:51 — Stephen (not verified)

0.00005% of the wheat genome

Yesterday I asked Rothamsted about the number of engineered base pairs in the wheat lines now being tested. Here is the kind reply from Toby Bruce, today:

Altogether we have engineered in 8703 base pairs, which is 0.00005 % of the 17 gigabase wheat genome.

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