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UI researchers to take part in research on gene function in mustard plant |
 | | Co-principal investigators on the grant the second largest of the NSF initiative are Lei Liu, director of bioinformatics, and Mark Band, director of functional genomics, both at the UI Biotechnology Center; and Stephen G. Sligar, a professor in the departments of biochemistry and of chemistry. |
 | | Collaborators include Hans Bohnert, a new faculty member in the departments of plant biology and of crop sciences, and Daniele Werck-Reichhart of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Strasbourg, France. |
 | | The plant has far fewer non-coding, or junk, DNA than do most of the higher plants such as corn, wheat and soybeans. |
| www.news.uiuc.edu /news/01/1010mustard.html (624 words) |
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