Brussels, 15/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European research project, financed up to EUR 26 million by the European Commission since 1991, has resulted in the first full sequencing of 115 million "base pairs" encoding nearly 26,000 genes, making up the full genome of the weed "Arabidopsis thaliana", known as thale cress. Fifteen European Union laboratories but also laboratories in Japan and the United States have pooled their efforts to achieve this first ever project, the first full...