Jul 29, 2015Novogene partners with CIP
The International Potato Center (CIP) and Novogene Bioinformatics Technology announced a partnership to advance potato genome research it was announced at the 9th World Potato Congress in Beijing.
CIP is custodian of the world’s largest potato gene bank and Novogene has the largest illumina-based sequencing capacity in China. The partnership aims to facilitate production of improved potato varieties.
Under the partnership, Novogene will sequence the genomes of samples provided by CIP from nine different taxa of cultivated potato and one closely related wild species.