Knowing what the comparable gene in Arabidopsis is, and what it does, gives Ceres and its competitors ashortcut to help them decide how their own genes might work in a crop species.
Although safety rules ordinarily would force a shuttle with a navigation problem to cutshortits mission immediately, Columbia is equipped with two back-up units, NASA said.
But her book also tells a more universal story - of a mother's love and a mother's loss, and a tribute to a young life that was cutshort before its time.
Clearly, if MHI is going to make a business of this (as well as of itsshort haul MRJ commercial jet) it is going to have to find a way to cutits costs and reduce prices to customers.