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Science 2 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5505, p. 807
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5505.807A
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RICE GENOME:
Syngenta Finishes, Consortium Goes On

R. John Davenport

A Swiss-based agrochemical company has completed sequencing the genome of the first important food crop, rice. But scientists who want the data will either have to pay for the right to use it or wait 3 years until an international consortium completes its work on a publicly sponsored--and likely more thorough--version of the same project.

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A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica).
J. Yu, S. Hu, J. Wang, G. K.-S. Wong, S. Li, B. Liu, Y. Deng, L. Dai, Y. Zhou, X. Zhang, et al. (2002)
Science 296, 79-92
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Toward a Cytological Characterization of the Rice Genome.
Z. Cheng, C. R. Buell, R. A. Wing, M. Gu, and J. Jiang (2001)
Genome Res. 11, 2133-2141
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