Abstract
Given the current projections, maize will become the largest crop worldwide within a few years. It is vital that a crop this important have a well-defined genome. One hundred and thirty Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) maize sequences have been analyzed through various bioinformatics software, such as BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Searching Tool), GenScan, and Clustalx. BLAST analysis revealed that the maize genome is composed of diverse sequences tha ...More »