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The IWGSC announced today that it will receive €1 million (Euros) from Bayer CropScience. The contribution will enable completion of physical maps for all 21 bread wheat chromosomes in 2014.
The G20 group of nations approved the International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement (IRIWI) in Paris in June 2011.
The International Wheat Genome Sequence Consortium (IWGSC), an international consortium of wheat growers, public and private breeders and scientists, strongly disagrees with implications that the sequence reads made available by a UK team, led by Professor Neil Hall, represent in any way the sequence of the wheat genome or that this work is comparable to genome sequences for rice, maize, or soybean.

Modification date : 16 August 2023 | Publication date : 30 October 2020 | Redactor : ic