The Rice Genome Project PDF
The Rice Genome Project PDF
The Rice Genome Project PDF
• Understanding – plant evolution and the differences between monocots and dicots.
• Improve efficiency of rice breeding.
• Improve nutritional value of rice.
• Enhance crop yield by improving seed quality, resistance to pests and diseases and plant
hardiness.
• Useful in identifying plant specific genes that can be potential herbicide targets.
• Development of gene-specific markers for marker-assisted breeding of new and improved
rice varieties.
Reasons for sequencing Rice first
• Importance as crop.
• Largest food source for poor.
• Feeds half of world’s population.
• Demand likely to increase dramatically.
• In Asia alone, demand will increase by at least 35%.