The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) has sequenced the bread wheat genome, the world’s most widely cultivated crop.
Their work paves the way for the production of new wheat varieties that are better adapted to climate change, with higher yields, enhanced nutritional quality and improved sustainability.
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes (the coding regions) and the noncoding DNA, as well as mitochondrial DNA and chloroplast DNA. The study of the genome is called genomics.
