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, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
by ruth on March 28, 2006
"This is viticulture's equivalent of the first moonwalk. Wine making will never be the same," Riccardo Velasco, head of genetics and molecular biology at the Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige, told Discovery News.
The blueprint will make it possible to develop new, more resistant varieties that can produce superior wines, Velasco said.
The Italian researchers announced this good news at a news conference in Trento. Grape is the first fruit genome to be mapped, a development that will truly change the future of winemaking.
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Response from:
Brian Smith-White
(12/04/06 7:07pm)
Really? Where are the nucleotide records? Not at GenBank. In the absence of public nucleotide records this assertion is marketing drivel for vaporware.
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