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Corn Utilization and Technology Conference
The 2012 Corn Utilization and Technology Conference will be held June 4-6 in Indianapolis. With a theme of “Back to the Grind,” the biennial conference will feature the cutting-edge technologies and new uses that continually improve and dynamically change the corn industry. The 2012 Corn Utilization and Technology Conference will debut a third tier of presentation options offering participants the opportunity to hear the latest on mycotoxin research. The Aflatoxin Mitigation...
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National Agricultural Genotyping Center
The mission of the National Agricultural Genotyping Center is to translate scientific discoveries into solutions for production agriculture, food safety, functional foods, bioenergy and national security. At present, there exists a large unmet need for high-throughput genotyping services within U.S. agricultural research, food production and safety testing. The National Corn Growers Association in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center...
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Research Glossary
Genetics is the science of heredity and variation. Genomics is a discipline of genetics that encompasses gene mapping, gene sequencing and determining gene function. Genotyping is the application of genomic information to develop new traits and products. In 1997, NCGA spearheaded the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI), which sequenced the corn genome and other plant genomes. The draft of the corn genome sequence was completed in 2008. The next phase of the project is to apply...
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