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A corn phenotyping initiative that leverages the mapping of the corn genome to identify key corn genetic traits is entering its fourth year.

The research program, called Genomes to Fields, was started by the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. Curt Mether of Logan, Iowa chairs that board’s research committee.

“It’s been a few years ago now, but they mapped the genes of the corn plant. So now they know how many genes are in the corn plant and everything, but they still don’t know what each gene does,” Mether says.

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