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Nature 447, 361 (24 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447361a; Published online 23 May 2007
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Protect Enzyme from In Planta Degradation
A proposal for stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed is desired.
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Fast Growth of Transformed Soybean Shoots
A method for accelerating growth of soybean shoots is desired.
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Help flies in for human genome
Erika Check
Worms and flies are to be enlisted by researchers attempting to make sense of the instructions embedded in the human genome.Since 2003, geneticists in the United States have been engaged in the pilot phase of a project called ENCODE — the Encyclopedia of DNA elements — which aims to catalogue all the functional parts of the human genome at a cost of around US$20 million a year.
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