The Human Genome Project was started in 1990 and was expected to take 15 years at a cost of $3 billion, funded by the US Department of Energy. It comprised a consortium of scientists from the UK, France, Australia, China and USA with contributions from many others....
Sugarcane grows repeating vegetative units that make up the stalk. Each unit consists of three structures, a leaf, a node and an internode, which arise from the apical meristem that systematically switches between each morphology. The production of vegetative units...
A key component of the sugarcane breeding program is introgression of new characteristics from wild species. Erianthus, a closely related genus to sugarcane, is a good candidate as it contains a number of traits of agronomic importance including pest and disease...
