UNIVERSITI Sains Malaysia (USM)’s Centre for Chemical Biology (CCB@USM) has unveiled the first-ever draft of the hevea brasiliensis rubber tree genome in the world and likely position Malaysia as the leading quality rubber producer in the world.
The centre’s deputy director (Research) Prof Nazalan Najimudin said a week ago that the decoding of the draft of the two billion-base genome took almost a year to be completed.
