Jeff’s mild annoyance with the continued debate about one or two rice origins is noted in a quote in Nature. Why won’t anyone argue for seventeen origins?
In which Jeff learns not to let the publicists write quotes for him. In the UC Davis Press Release on the HapMap2 papers by Hufford et al. and Chia et al., Jeff is quoted as claiming the work will solve hunger, improve yield, create world peace. If only we’d had higher depth sequencing we could have solved the JFK assassination too.