Object Details
- Description
- This picotiter plate held DNA samples from Costa Rican cacao trees during analysis to sequence the cacao genome from 2009 to 2011. The genome sequencing was part of a $10 million collaboration sponsored by American chocolate company Mars Inc. to work towards developing disease resistant cacao trees and ensuring a stable cacao supply.
- Credit Line
- Indiana University thru Scott Michaels
- ID Number
- 2014.0137.31
- catalog number
- 2014.0137.31
- accession number
- 2014.0137
- serial number
- 732761
- Object Name
- picotiter plate
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/8 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 3/4 in; .3175 cm x 7.46125 cm x 6.985 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1464320
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-287f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
