Researchers decode 95.6% of the genome of Nicotiana benthamiana [W[R]C]

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-decode-genome-nicotiana-benthamiana.html

The plant Nicotiana benthamiana, from the Solanaceae family, is one of the most widely used experimental models in plant science. In 2020, a research group at Nagoya University in Japan reported that N. benthamiana could be grafted with plants from different families, demonstrating a rare ability that many researchers thought impossible.

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