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An international consortium has sequenced the 480-million-plus DNA letters of the Populus genome -- making it the first tree genome to be completely sequenced. Consortium researchers, from organizations including the U.S. Department of Energy, Genome Canada, and the Umeå Plant Science Centre in Sweden, have found more than 40,000 genes in a preliminary analysis
of the sequence.
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