CAS Researchers Join Hands with World Peers for Sequenced Rice Genome

Adetailed analysis of the high-quality sequence of the rice genome was pub- lished in the August 11 issue of the journal Nature, marking the comple- tion of a six-year international col- laborative effort to unravel the ge- nome of the world’s most important food crop that feeds over half of the global population. The work unveils a genome consisting of roughly 400 million DNA bases holding 37,544 genes on rice’s 12 chromosomes, affirm scientists in the Nature article, of- fering an overvi…