A group of University of Georgia researchers has received a $4.1 million National Science Foundation grant to study genes in corn and create an annotated data base of their findings.
The study will look at transposable elements, popularly called "jumping genes" when they were discovered more than half a century ago, which are sequences of DNA that can move around chromosomes in a cell.
At first thought to be molecular junk, they now are recognized as important, even crucial parts of the blueprints of plants and animals.
Susan Wessler, Regents Professor of plant biology at UGA, is the principal investigator.
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