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The World's Most Important Food Crop Yields Its Genetic Secrets
The journal Nature in a featured article today proclaimed the completion of the rice genome by the Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers (PGIR) and other members of an international consortium.
“This is a breakthrough of inestimable significance not only for science and agriculture, but also for all those people who depend on rice as their primary dietary staple – more than half the world’s population,” said Joachim Messing, director of Rutgers’ Waksman Institute of Microbiology, home to the PGIR.
The publicly available finished sequence is anchored to the genetic map, providing both the linear order of the 37,544 genes and their positions on the 12 rice chromosomes. This highly accurate, map-based characterization of the rice genome already has led to the identification of important genes, such as those which may increase yield and productivity. Draft sequences of rice published previously lacked the coverage and accuracy to permit such discovery.
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The journal Nature in a featured article today proclaimed the completion of the rice genome by the Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers (PGIR) and other members of an international consortium.
“This is a breakthrough of inestimable significance not only for science and agriculture, but also for all those people who depend on rice as their primary dietary staple – more than half the world’s population,” said Joachim Messing, director of Rutgers’ Waksman Institute of Microbiology, home to the PGIR.
The publicly available finished sequence is anchored to the genetic map, providing both the linear order of the 37,544 genes and their positions on the 12 rice chromosomes. This highly accurate, map-based characterization of the rice genome already has led to the identification of important genes, such as those which may increase yield and productivity. Draft sequences of rice published previously lacked the coverage and accuracy to permit such discovery.
Complete Sequence of Rice Genome Announced
The World's Most Important Food Crop Yields Its Genetic SecretsThe journal Nature in a featured article today proclaimed the completion of the rice genome by the Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers (PGIR) and other members of an international consortium.
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