Cibus Announces Breakthrough in Wheat Regeneration From Single Cells

Condensed by Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Unconventional Ag Media January 16, 2004

Initially sequenced only five years ago, the wheat genome is one of the largest of all crops with more than 16 billion letters - five times larger than the human genome. They are also very complex with durum wheat comprising the combination of two genomes and bread wheat, the fusion of three. 

With the success of this achievement, Cibus stated it plans to develop a family of traits to address the greatest challenges being faced by the world’s wheat farmers starting with disease resistance and nitrogen use efficiency, and eventually develop a scalable high-speed breeding production system that can develop and produce traits for any seed company servicing any of the five major crops: canola, rice, wheat, soybeans, and corn. (Read the original full article on Cibus)