BGI-Led Team Sequences Cucumber Genome

Nov 02, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – An international research team led by investigators at the Beijing Genomics Institute-Shenzhen reported online in Nature Genetics yesterday that they have sequenced the draft genome of the domestic cucumber plant, Cucumis sativus.

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