Peking University's Modern Agriculture Research Institute, Weifang Modern Agriculture Shandong Laboratory, and the National Key Laboratory of Wheat Breeding have achieved breakthrough results — for the first time in the world, they have successfully drawn up a complete telometer-to-telomeric genome map of hexaploid wheat, enabling accurate assembly of the wheat genome from “head” to “tail” without gaps. This achievement marks a new stage in wheat genomics research, providing important support for China's staple food crops to stand on their own feet in a high level of science and technology and to firmly grasp the food security initiative. The relevant research results were recently published in the international academic journal “Nature Genetics”.

Peking University's Modern Agriculture Research Institute, Weifang Modern Agriculture Shandong Laboratory, and the National Key Laboratory of Wheat Breeding have achieved breakthrough results — for the first time in the world, they have successfully drawn up a complete telometer-to-telomeric genome map of hexaploid wheat, enabling accurate assembly of the wheat genome from “head” to “tail” without gaps. This achievement marks a new stage in wheat genomics research, providing important support for China's staple food crops to stand on their own feet in a high level of science and technology and to firmly grasp the food security initiative. The relevant research results were recently published in the international academic journal “Nature Genetics”.