Rice Sequences: Sustenance for Future Plant-Genome Research

摘要

No sooner have the two draft human-ge-nome papers vanished from view than along come replacements. At #5 and #6 are papers announcing draft sequences for the species that supports more human genomes than any other: rice. Two teams, one representing the private sector and the other public research, announced their draft sequences in the same issue of Science. Just ahead at #5 is the public-sector group at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), led by Huanming Yang, which sequenced the indica subspecies that is favored in China and other tropical countries. Close behind is a group led by Stephen A. Goff of Syngenta's Torrey Mesa Research Institute in San Diego. Syngenta, an agricultural company, chose to sequence the japonica subspecies grown especially in Japan and temperate countries.