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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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February 1, 2021
Fields of breeders' dreams: A team effort toward targeted crop improvements
MSU plant biologist David Lowry is part of a study that examines the use of switchgrass in fighting climate change to improve crop growth. As reported in a recent issue of Nature, the team has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome, and is exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing and customization of the crop for additional end products. 
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