Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

Fava/Faba/Broad beans and you. Sequencing of the Faba bean genome has long been hindered by its huge size: 13 billion nucleotides distributed across 6 chromosomes. So what? The entire human genome is the same size as the biggest chromosome of Faba bean. Take that, human. t.co/ej9RjyjvSY