Article: SWEET POTATOES GET HIGH-TECH HELP

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following article in Agriculture Today:

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) computational molecular biologist in Mississippi is launching a project to create a genomics toolkit to help plant breeders develop new varieties of sweet potato. Brian Scheffler and his colleagues will use the state-of-the-art equipment at the ARS Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss., to develop and locate DNA markers on the 90 chromosomes of sweet potato.

Sweet potato, the world's seventh most important food crop, is extremely important to global food security, according to Scheffler. Yet very little genomics ...

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