The genome that feeds the world :The Scientist [5/4/2002]

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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

The genome that feeds the world

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020405-01

Published

5 April 2002

Rice is one the most highly consumed cereals in the world and is the staple diet of over half the world's population. In the April 5 Science, two independent groups report the first draft sequences of the rice genome. Stephen Goff and researchers at Syngenta's Torrey Mesa Research Institute (TMRI) in California, carried out whole-genome shotgun sequencing of the Oryza sativa L. Ssp. japonica subspecies (Science 2002, 296:92-100), while scientists in China, at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), chose the widely cultivated Oryza sativa L. Ssp. Indica (Science 2002, 296:79-92).


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