Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola cause bacterial
blight and bacterial leaf streak of rice (Oryza sativa), which constrain production of this staple …

Rice is becoming a model plant in monocotyledons and a model cereal crop. For better
understanding of the rice plant, it is essential to elucidate the developmental programs of the …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and
japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over …

By employing the nuclear DNA of the African rice Oryza glaberrima as a reference genome,
the timing, natures, mechanisms, and specificities of recent sequence evolution in the indica …

Despite the intensive management practices available to modern agriculture, drought and
salinity are still major constraints on crop production and food security. Yield losses to …

Paramutation is an allele-dependent transfer of epigenetic information, which results in the
heritable silencing of one allele by another. Paramutation at the b1 locus in maize is …

Sustainable crop production is the major challenge in the current global climate change
scenario. Drought stress is one of the most critical abiotic factors which negatively impact …

Allelic chromosomal regions totaling more than 2.8 Mb and located on maize (Zea mays)
chromosomes 1L, 2S, 7L, and 9S have been sequenced and compared over distances of …