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Soya genome sequenced

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Biofuel potential spurs US consortium to map DNA of nutritious bean.

The soya bean has been sequenced at last. Glycine max is an important human and animal food crop, rich in oil and protein. But it is as a feedstock for biodiesel — in which vegetable oil is chemically altered to power diesel engines — that it attracted the notice of the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, California.

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  1. International Rice Genome Sequencing Project Nature 436, 793–800 doi:10.1038/nature03895 (2005).

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Marris, E. Soya genome sequenced. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1294

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