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Monday, June 30, 2008

A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate

New York Times Blog:
"Mars, the giant candy maker (think M&M’s and Snickers bars), takes cocoa very seriously: a five-year project to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome.
The goal is to deploy the most advanced tools of computational biology to discover the genetic building blocks of traits like disease and pest resistance, drought tolerance and perhaps flavor."

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