The genome of the crop plant barley consists of about five billion nucleotides. (IMAGE)

Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research

The genome of the crop plant barley consists of about five billion nucleotides.

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The genome of the crop plant barley consists of about five billion nucleotides. When the international research team led by the IPK compared the different assemblies to each other, the HiFi assembly performed best.

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Photo: Eva Siebenhühner/ IPK

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