News tagged with rice genome

Scientists make human blood protein from rice

Scientists at a Chinese university said Monday they can use rice to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shock and liver disease.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists find rice 'chalk' gene, eye yield rise

Scientists expect to soon be able to remove a chalk-like part of rice, dramatically raising global harvests amid rising demand for the staple, an international research outfit said Tuesday.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Early agricultural piracy informs the domestication of rice

The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domestication of rice occurred at lea ...

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created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study shows genetic rice breeding goes back 10,000 years

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Masanori Yamasaki and colleagues from Kobe University in Japan, describe how they analyzed the genomes of severa ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

UC Riverside geneticists to study how plants adapt to a changing environment

Transposable elements (TEs) – DNA sequences that move from one location in the genome to another – are abundant in plants and animals, evolve rapidly and promote the evolution of the genome. What ...

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created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Arizona-led group awarded $9.9 million to develop 'super rice'

A University of Arizona-led consortium has been awarded $9.9 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a deeper understanding of the wild relatives of cultivated rice with the ultimate goal of ...

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created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists identify genetic resistance to rice sheath blight

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have identified sources of genetic resistance to sheath blight, a major disease affecting rice production worldwide.

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created May 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0