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Wheat helped create civilization in the Middle East. It's a staple crop for 30% of the world's

population. And now, with the publication of four articles in the journal Science, we're

close to a detailed understanding of the bread wheat genome. Wheat is tough to sequence. It's gone

through multiple hybridizations,

making its genome five times larger than a human one. Plus, there are many redundancies.

More than 80% of the genome is made of repeated DNA sequences. So the typical whole genome shotgun

approach, breaking genomes into segments and then reassembling them, doesn't work for wheat.

Instead, an international consortium

devised another strategy involving physically mapping individual chromosomes and chromosome arms.

One paper details a draft of the entire genome of breadweed. Another identifies all the genes on

the largest of the plant's 21 chromosomes. Some 75,000 genes have been mapped. The methods in the

second paper will help scientists map the remaining chromosomes.

They say it should take another three years.

Knowing exactly which genes are responsible for talent, such as tolerating drought or improving

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