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Genetics of a hardy crop

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New genomic resources for pearl millet are revealing how crops stand up to challenging environments.

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Figure 1: Using the pearl millet genome for crop improvement.

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  1. Ksenia V. Krasileva is at the Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, and The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.,

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Krasileva, K. Genetics of a hardy crop. Nat Biotechnol 35, 922–924 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3984

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