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"The
map-based sequence of the rice genome," by the International Rice
Genome Sequencing Project (T. Matsumoto, et al.), Nature,
436(7052): 793-800, 11 August 2005.
[Authors' affiliations: 32 institutions
worldwide]
Abstract: "Rice, one of the world's
most important food plants, has important syntenic relationships with the
other cereal species and is a model plant for the grasses. Here we present a
map-based, finished quality sequence that covers 95% of the 389 Mb genome,
including virtually all of the euchromatin and two complete centromeres. A
total of 37,544 non-transposable-element-related protein-coding genes were
identified, of which 71% had a putative homologue in Arabidopsis. In
a reciprocal analysis, 90% of the Arabidopsis proteins had a putative
homologue in the predicted rice proteome. Twenty-nine per cent of the 37,544
predicted genes appear in clustered gene families. The number and classes of
transposable elements found in the rice genome are consistent with the
expansion of syntenic regions in the maize and sorghum genomes. We find
evidence for widespread and recurrent gene transfer from the organelles to
the nuclear chromosomes. The map-based sequence has proven useful for the
identification of genes underlying agronomic traits. The additional
single-nucleotide polymorphisms and simple sequence repeats identified in
our study should accelerate improvements in rice production."
This 2005 report from Nature was
cited 35 times in current journal articles indexed by Thomson
Scientific during January-February 2007. Only one other biology paper
published in the last two years, aside from reviews, collected a greater
number of citations during that two-month period. Prior to the most recent
bimonthly count, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:
November-December 2006: 24 citations
September-October 2006: 26
July-August 2006: 22
May-June 2006: 20
March-April 2006: 24
January-February 2006: 9
November-December 2005: 5
September-October 2005: 2
Total citations to date: 167
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