date:Oct 22, 2012
ing the world's growing population living in an environment that increasingly challenges farmers and ranchers with extreme weather events.
Nearly twice as large as the human or maize genomes, the barley genome was a challenge to sequence due to its complexity and its large proportion of repetitive regions that are difficult to piece together into a true linear order. By developing and applying a series of innovative strategies that allowed them to circumvent thee difficulties, the IBSC created