International Rice Genome Sequencing Project: The effort to completely sequence the rice genome

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 138-142

  Sasaki, Takuji ^a   Burr, Benjamin ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME LIBRARY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT VARIETY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; JAPONICA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0034013059     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)00047-3     Document Type: Review

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