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Science 5 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5565, pp. 60 - 63
DOI: 10.1126/science.1071402
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Perspectives

THE RICE GENOME:
Opening the Door to Comparative Plant Biology

Jeffrey Bennetzen

In this Perspective, Bennetzen takes a close look at the two draft sequences of the rice genome (Yu et al., Goff et al.) and discusses revelations about gene number and organization.

The author is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: maize{at}bilbo.bio.purdue.edu

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