According to this official's account, Rice was the "only cabinet member arguing for what we ended up doing in Libya" — a military intervention, backed by a strong U.N. resolution Rice managed to secure, that saved Benghazi and ended with the ousting of Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In January 2012 after the Russian and Chinese veto of a UNSC resolution, Rice strongly condemned both countries for vetoing a resolution calling on (Syria's ruler) Bashar al-Assad to step down.
Thus, access to a complete, high-resolution rice genome sequence will facilitate research on other cereals with larger, partially sequenced genomes.
The bin-map strategy was demonstrated to be efficient in generation of ultra high-density of bin markers based on sparse SNP information and identification of QTL with high resolution in rice and sorghum [ 10, 29].
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) allow high resolution exploration of rice genetic diversity for quantitative and qualitative resistance alleles that can be combined in breeding programs to achieve durability.
Recently, a genome-wide re-sequencing analysis of 20 diverse indica and japonica cultivars produced about 160,000 SNPs (McNally et al. 2009), which enabled us to introgress a large number of QTLs at high resolution in our rice breeding program.
The single-base resolution methylomes of rice obtained in this study have not only broadened our understanding of the mechanism and function of DNA methylation in plant genomes, but also provided valuable data for future studies of rice epigenetics and the epigenetic differentiation between wild and cultivated rice.
The sparse data basis and low resolution of the current rice GO annotation that mostly assigns top level terms, are the most probable causes for the limited success in detecting significant enrichments.
A number of medium- or high-resolution SNP arrays in rice have been deployed, primarily for genome-wide association studies, including a 44 K SNP chip (Zhao et al. 2011), 50 K SNP chips (Chen et al. 2013b; Singh et al. 2015), and the 700 K high-density rice array (HDRA, McCouch et al. 2016).
With the window of resolution afforded by the rice-sorghum-Arabidopsis comparative genomics, we have set the stage for more strategic experimental validation of cis-regulatory signatures of orthologous stress-associated bZIP transcription factors by functional genomics.
As an initial step towards developing a systems-level understanding of the biological processes underlying the expression of overall agronomic potential in cereal crops, a high-resolution transcriptome analysis of rice was conducted throughout life cycle of rice grown under natural field conditions.
