Tagged: nanopore PicturesList 01 The plant · 6 May 2026 Why Rooibos Has Been So Hard to Sequence, and Why the Ministry Wants It Done Rooibos carries a genome roughly a billion base pairs long, packed with the same tannin-like compounds that make its tea, and those compounds fight every attempt to read its DNA. Here is what scientists have found so far, and why a finished genome matters for a crop already running short on stress tolerance. Nothing filed under this topic yet.