The tropical tree whose fruit packs a vitamin-rich punch has
become the fifth flowering plant to reveal its genome. An international team of
researchers has unveiled a draft of the catalog of genetic information needed
to make papaya.
It is the first time researchers have compiled the genome of
a transgenic fruit crop — the papaya variety had been genetically modified for
protection against a virus.
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