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Photo Of The Day: Mapping The Strawberry Genome

(AP) — Plant molecular biologist Janet Slavin holds a yellow woodland variety of strawberry that has been genome sequenced, at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The wild strawberry has been added to the short list of foods whose genomes have been mapped, and scientists say they hope the work will help them produce better strawberries faster than they could with traditional plant breeding.

Feb 23, 2011

(AP) — Plant molecular biologist Janet Slavin holds a yellow woodland variety of strawberry that has been genome sequenced, at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011.

The wild strawberry has been added to the short list of foods whose genomes have been mapped, and scientists say they hope the work will help them produce better strawberries faster than they could with traditional plant breeding. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)