A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome ( Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica )
Science2002Vol. 296(5565), pp. 79–92
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Jun Yu, Songnian Hu, Jun Wang, Gane Ka‐Shu Wong, Songgang Li, Bin Liu, Yajun Deng, Li Dai, Yan Zhou, Xiuqing Zhang, Mengliang Cao, Jing Liu, Jiandong Sun, Jiabin Tang, Feng Chen, Xiaobing Huang, Wei‐Yu Lin, Chen Ye, Tong Wei, Lijuan Cong, Jianing Geng, Yujun Han, Lin Li, Wei Li, Guangqiang Hu, Xiangang Huang, Wenjie Li, Jian Li, Zhanwei Liu, Long Li, Jianping Liu, Qiuhui Qi, Jinsong Liu, Li Li, Tao Li, Xuegang Wang, Hong Lü, Tingting Wu, Miao Zhu, Peixiang Ni, Hua Han, Wei Dong, Xiaoyu Ren, Xiaoli Feng, Peng Cui, Xianran Li, Hao Wang, Xin Xu, Wenxue Zhai, Xu Zhao, Jin‐Song Zhang, Sijie He, Jianguo Zhang, Jichen Xu, Kunlin Zhang, Xianwu Zheng, Jianhai Dong, Wanyong Zeng, Lin Tao, Jia Ye, Jun Tan, Xide Ren, Xuewei Chen, Jun He, Daofeng Liu, Wei Tian, Chaoguang Tian, Hongai Xia, Qiyu Bao, Gang Li, Hui Gao, Ting Cao, Juan Wang, Wenming Zhao, Ping Li, Wei Chen, Xudong Wang, Yong Zhang, Jianfei Hu, Jing Wang, Song Liu, Jian Yang, Guangyu Zhang, Yuqing Xiong, Zhijie Li, Long Mao, Chengshu Zhou, Zhen Zhu, Runsheng Chen, Bailin Hao, Wei‐Mou Zheng, Shou‐Yi Chen, Wei Guo, Guojie Li, Siqi Liu, Ming Tao, Jian Wang, Li Zhu, Longping Yuan, Huanming Yang
Abstract
The genome of the japonica subspecies of rice, an important cereal and model monocot, was sequenced and assembled by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The assembled sequence covers 93% of the 420-megabase genome. Gene predictions on the assembled sequence suggest that the genome contains 32,000 to 50,000 genes. Homologs of 98% of the known maize, wheat, and barley proteins are found in rice. Synteny and gene homology between rice and the other cereal genomes are extensive, whereas synteny with Arabidopsis is limited. Assignment of candidate rice orthologs to Arabidopsis genes is possible in many cases. The rice genome sequence provides a foundation for the improvement of cereals, our most important crops.
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