New research performed by Oregon State University and the US Department of Agriculture expanded significantly the understanding of the hop genome, creating a potential to provide brewers with additional hop varieties. According to the author of the study, “if you are asking the beer drinkers, they will be excited about the brewing side; if you are talking to the medical field, they are going to be excited about the pharmaceutical potential”. The findings of the study are published in the journal, The Plant Genome.
