Traditional rice varieties harbour a large store of genetic diversity with potential to accelerate rice improvement.
Applying these methods will accelerate rice functional genomics.
These methods and tools will allow users to more accurately refine their candidate gene lists to improve the efficiency of functional testing, greatly accelerating rice gene discovery.
The GNMS markers when genetically associated with the target traits would facilitate gene cloning and marker-assisted breeding, thereby accelerating rice genetic improvement.
Through the public release of this dataset, we encourage the global science community to analyze the data and to contribute in building a public rice genetic/genomic database and information platform that will accelerate rice breeding.
Completion of the sequencing and preliminary analyses of 3K rice genomes is just the first step in establishing an information platform of integrated databases and advanced tools to accelerate rice breeding.
The striped rice borer invasion reduced French rice competitiveness and consequently accelerated the decline in rice cultivation to 4,400 ha by 1981.
In addition, the spread of Japanese food restaurants outside of Japan has accelerated demand for rice with high eating quality.
Thus, we hope that this data note will be the beginning of a new round of accelerated discoveries in rice science.
The completed, map-based sequence of the rice genome has significantly accelerated the functional characterization of rice genes, but progress remains limited in assigning functions to all predicted non-transposable element (non-TE) genes, estimated to number 37,000 41,000.
