Timothy Close and Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Timothy Close and Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside

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To sequence the barley genome, Timothy Close (left) and Stefano Lonardi (right) will use UC Riverside's Illumina Genome Analyzer 2G, seen between them, which can generate billions of bases of high-quality DNA sequences per run. New sequencing technologies have broad applications in plant sciences and agriculture.

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