"That would be enough to help create new products and put dollars in the pockets of farmers, " Alexander said after a tour of Iowa State University's agriculture research labs in Ames.

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Iowa State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Ames Laboratory, in partnership with a network of universities and industrial partners, will be initiating a series of workshops called "Mapping the Materials Genome" focused on identifying the critical research challenges and establishing the experimental and computational techniques by which the "Materials Genome" can in fact be realized.

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