Professor Takeshi TANAKA and others at Okayama University Advanced Genome Center have participated in the sequencing of 4,980 million base pairs equivalent to 98% of the genomes of a Japanese barley breed Morex” which is often grown as a second breed to rice, and improvements are needed, e. g. if the crop season overlaps with a rainy season “
Nature, October 18, 2012
International genome program on Hordeum vulgare (barley): Okayama University has made important contributions