Source:  Mick Kulikowski, NCSU, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 1/13/11

In a paper published online in Nature Genetics, North Carolina State University and U.S. Department of Agriculture crop scientists and plant pathologists sift through millions of genetic sequence variations in the set of all genes in maize (corn) to identify 51 gene regions associated with resistance to Southern corn leaf blight disease — an important plant pathogen.

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