Massive gene losses in Asian cultivated rice unveiled by comparative genome analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. With increasing world demand for food crops, there is an urgent need to develop new cultivars that have enhanced performance with regard to yield, disease resistance, and so on. Wild rice is expected to provide useful genetic resources that could improve the present cultivated species. However, the quantity and quality of these unexplored resources remain unclear. Recent accumulation of the genomic information of both cultivated and wild rice species allows for their comparison at the molecular level. Here, we compared the genome sequence of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica with sets of bacterial artificial chromosome end sequences (BESs) from two wild rice species, O. rufipogon and O. nivara, and an African rice speci

SUBMITTER: Sakai H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2831846 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature