The completion of a high-quality sequence of the maize (corn) genome is announced in the cover story of the November 20, 2009, issue of Science .
This new genome sequence reports the sequence of genes in maize and provides a detailed physical map of the maize genome.
This map identifies the order in which genes are located along each of maize's 10 chromosomes and the physical distances between those genes.
Additional information provided by the new maize genome ......
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