TY - JOUR
T1 - The rice genome revolution
T2 - From an ancient grain to Green Super Rice
AU - Wing, Rod A.
AU - Purugganan, Michael D.
AU - Zhang, Qifa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems. This dual role places rice at the centre of an enormous challenge facing agriculture: how to leverage genomics to produce enough food to feed an expanding global population. Scientists worldwide are investigating the genetic variation among domesticated rice species and their wild relatives with the aim of identifying loci that can be exploited to breed a new generation of sustainable crops known as Green Super Rice.
AB - Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems. This dual role places rice at the centre of an enormous challenge facing agriculture: how to leverage genomics to produce enough food to feed an expanding global population. Scientists worldwide are investigating the genetic variation among domesticated rice species and their wild relatives with the aim of identifying loci that can be exploited to breed a new generation of sustainable crops known as Green Super Rice.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41576-018-0024-z
DO - 10.1038/s41576-018-0024-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29872215
AN - SCOPUS:85048051922
SN - 1471-0056
VL - 19
SP - 505
EP - 517
JO - Nature Reviews Genetics
JF - Nature Reviews Genetics
IS - 8
ER -