Roche NimbleGen, Inc Collaboration with Consortium of Researchers ‘Plants the Seed’ Towards Our Understanding of the Complex Maize Genome

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A team of scientists from Iowa State University, the University of Florida, the University of Minnesota, and Roche NimbleGen (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets:RHHBY) have recently announced their research has uncovered a previously unknown level of diversity, complexity and structural variation in the maize genome as well as between strains of the crop. The results of this ground-breaking study have revealed unprecedented levels of structural variation and can now provide additional data to help determine differential traits and phenotypes across different strains of maize. The findings were uncovered by using high-density Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) microarrays from Roche NimbleGen which provided the high resolution data to precisely map out the genomic structural variation between different types of maize.