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Moss is a super model for feeding the hungry

Scientists from the University of Leeds, with colleagues from Germany, Japan and the USA, have sequenced the genome for Physcomitrella -- the first nonflowering or "lower" plant to be sequenced -- and their findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Science. Now that they have sequenced the moss's DNA, scientists will be able to identify which genes control these survival tactics and adapt crops to do the same.

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