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Dateline: RALEIGH, North Carolina Philip Morris USA has agreed to give $17.6 million to North Carolina State University to map out the genetic makeup of tobacco, the school announced Wednesday.

The Tobacco Genome Initiative would be carried out over a 4 1/2-year period by North Carolina. State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. North Carolina. State researchers say mapping out tobacco' s genes could lead to engineering the leaf for alternative uses.

It is believed that tobacco has between 25,000 and 50,000 genes.

"We hope to sequence over 90 percent of tobacco's genes," said Charles Opperman, professor of plant pathology and genetics, who will lead ...

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