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Photo: Erkki Oksanen[/caption] Alan Schulman has been working in Finland since 1986, after defending his thesis in Yale. Barley was an obvious choice for him to open the secrets of the plant genome. "The first genomic tools for cultivated plants were made for maize and rice and then it has become possible to study other species as well. I was also very interested in genome dynamics driven by transposable elements, the jumping genes, and the model plant, Arabidopsis, is not a good place to study that. Barley is. It is also a good model system for basic questions in my case." "Barley is a good tool genetically, has seven chromosomes, so it simple genetically compared with wheat. It has big diversity set and has a wild ancestor still growing in its original range. It has also been studied a long time, so many mutations are known. Barley is important industrially. In Finland, barley is a major crop, so this is a good place to study it."

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