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Nature 407, 440-441 (28 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35035207
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A springboard to success
Colin Macilwain1 & Ricardo Bonalume Neto2
Abstract
Can Brazil build on its achievement of completing the first genome sequence of a plant pathogen? That may depend on its willingness to reform its universities, say Colin Macilwain and Ricardo Bonalume Neto.
When Fernando Perez, scientific director of FAPESP, the Brazilian state of São Paulo's science funding agency, launched an ambitious project to sequence the genome of a bacterium that attacks orange trees, his main objective was to train the state's scientists in the techniques of genomics. But now that the sequence of Xylella fastidiosa has been published in Nature1, the project is being hailed as a great deal more than a successful training programme.
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