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Science 5 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5565, pp. 92 - 100
DOI: 10.1126/science.1068275
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A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica)

Stephen A. Goff,1* Darrell Ricke,1 Tien-Hung Lan,1 Gernot Presting,1 Ronglin Wang,1 Molly Dunn,1 Jane Glazebrook,1 Allen Sessions,1 Paul Oeller,1 Hemant Varma,1 David Hadley,1 Don Hutchison,1 Chris Martin,1 Fumiaki Katagiri,1 B. Markus Lange,1 Todd Moughamer,1 Yu Xia,1 Paul Budworth,1 Jingping Zhong,1 Trini Miguel,1 Uta Paszkowski,1 Shiping Zhang,1 Michelle Colbert,1 Wei-lin Sun,1 Lili Chen,1 Bret Cooper,1 Sylvia Park,1 Todd Charles Wood,2 Long Mao,3 Peter Quail,4 Rod Wing,5 Ralph Dean,5 Yeisoo Yu,5 Andrey Zharkikh,6 Richard Shen,6dagger Sudhir Sahasrabudhe,6 Alun Thomas,6 Rob Cannings,6 Alexander Gutin,6 Dmitry Pruss,6 Julia Reid,6 Sean Tavtigian,6 Jeff Mitchell,6 Glenn Eldredge,6 Terri Scholl,6 Rose Mary Miller,6 Satish Bhatnagar,6 Nils Adey,6 Todd Rubano,6dagger Nadeem Tusneem,6 Rosann Robinson,6 Jane Feldhaus,6 Teresita Macalma,6 Arnold Oliphant,6dagger Steven Briggs1

The genome of the japonica subspecies of rice, an important cereal and model monocot, was sequenced and assembled by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The assembled sequence covers 93% of the 420-megabase genome. Gene predictions on the assembled sequence suggest that the genome contains 32,000 to 50,000 genes. Homologs of 98% of the known maize, wheat, and barley proteins are found in rice. Synteny and gene homology between rice and the other cereal genomes are extensive, whereas synteny with Arabidopsis is limited. Assignment of candidate rice orthologs to Arabidopsis genes is possible in many cases. The rice genome sequence provides a foundation for the improvement of cereals, our most important crops.

1 Torrey Mesa Research Institute, Syngenta, 3115 Merryfield Row, San Diego, CA 92121, USA (www.tmri.org).
2 Bryan College, Dayton, TN 37321, USA.
3 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
4 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
5 Clemson University Genomics Institute, 100 Jordan Hall, Clemson, SC 29630, USA.
6 Myriad Genetics, 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: stephen.goff{at}syngenta.com

dagger    Present address: Illumina Inc., 9885 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.

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