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© 2005 Oxford University Press
Editorial |
New Directions of Post-rice Genome Sequencing
BioScience BioTechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-0814 Japan
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple foods and it has been estimated that 50% of the human population depends on it as the main source of nutrition. It is particularly important for people living in the monsoon areas of Asia, where it has a long history of cultivation. On April 2002, two groups, Syngenta and the Beijing Genome Institute, reported draft sequences of japonica and indica varieties, respectively (Goff et al. 2002
, Yu et al. 2002
) and, in December of the