Hot Cereal: Rice reveals bumper crop of genes
By John Travis
For about a third of the world’s population, rice equals life. The cereal provides more than half the daily calories that these people consume.
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In the April 5 Science, two research groups report that they have independently deciphered almost the complete genetic code, or genome, of rice.
This worldwide staple becomes only the second plant–and the first crop plant–to have its genome unraveled.