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200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The ...
New DNA Tool Probes Rice Genome
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers ...
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New tool probes function of rice genes
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers nearly all the ...
'Rice camp' shows teens the grain is now
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May 05, 2006 |
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While millions of people in Southeast Asia depend on rice, the grain is attracting few young people as either farmers or scientists.
Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice - and along the way to gain knowledge that could help commercial ...
Scientists publish complete genetic blueprint of key biofuels crop
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and several partner institutions have published the sequence and analysis of the complete genome of sorghum, a major food and ...
Genome of saltwater creature could aid understanding of gene grouping
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Aug 20, 2008 |
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The genetic code of a simple saltwater creature could help researchers learn more about how groups of genes function in humans and other species.
Plant biologist seeks molecular differences between rice and its mimic
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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Red rice sounds like a New Orleans dish or a San Francisco treat. But it's a weed, the biggest nuisance to American rice growers, who are the fourth largest exporters of rice in the world. And rice farmers hate the pest, ...
New research shows how mobile DNA survives -- and thrives -- in plants, animals
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bits of movable DNA called transposable elements or TEs fill up the genomes of plants and animals, but it has remained unclear how a genome can survive a rapid burst of hundreds, even thousands of new TE ...
Whole genome fine map of rice completed
Feb 21, 2005 |
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Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population, and it was hoped that the availability of its genome sequence might enable scientists to develop more productive and environment friendly rice ...
Sequencing the Genome of a New Kind of Methane Producer
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Aug 03, 2006 |
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About 10 to 25 percent of the world's methane emissions come from flooded rice paddies. Methane is a greenhouse gas produced by various groups of microorganisms (methanogenic Archaea). Oxygen is usually highly ...
Scientists unveil draft sequence of corn genome
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Feb 25, 2008 |
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A team of scientists led by Washington University in St. Louis has begun to unlock the genetic secrets of corn, a crop vital to U.S. agriculture. The researchers have completed a working draft of the corn genome, an accomplishment ...
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