Rice Improvement Through Genome-Based Functional Analysis and Molecular Breeding in India.

ABSTRACT: Rice is one of the main pillars of food security in India. Its improvement for higher yield in sustainable agriculture system is also vital to provide energy and nutritional needs of growing world population, expected to reach more than 9 billion by 2050. The high quality genome sequence of rice has provided a rich resource to mine information about diversity of genes and alleles which can contribute to improvement of useful agronomic traits. Defining the function of each gene and regulatory element of rice remains a challenge for the rice community in the coming years. Subsequent to participation in IRGSP, India has continued to contribute in the areas of diversity analysis, transcriptomics, functional genomics, marker development, QTL mapping and molecular breeding, through national and

SUBMITTER: Agarwal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705060 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature