Ceres Releases Tens of Thousands of Corn Sequences to Public Researchers
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – July 12, 2004 – Working with the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Monsanto and DuPont, Ceres agreed to release over twenty thousand of its proprietary, full-length cDNA sequences from corn to academic and government research scientists working to sequence the corn genome. After completing a licensing agreement downloadable on the NCGA Web site at www.ncga.com, scientists can access the research at www.maizeseq.org.
This project underscores Ceres' continued commitment to research aimed at improving commercial corn varieties. With the availability of sequencing data from Ceres, the corn genome could be completely sequenced by 2007, potentially years ahead of when it would have been completed without this initiative.
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