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February 25, 2008

In 2005, NSF, DOE, and USDA funded the sequencing of the corn genome.

In 2005, NSF, DOE, and USDA funded the sequencing of the corn genome. Researchers for the sequencing project are from Washington University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Iowa State University, and the University of Arizona.

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