Rice is the most widely consumed staple food for both
developed as well as developing world, more so for Asia. According to the data
of FAOSTAT (2012), rice has the third-highest worldwide production after
sugarcane and maize, among all agricultural crops.
Developing countries account for 95% of the total rice
production, with China and India contributing for nearly half of the world
output The main focus of rice research has been on crop improvement to increase
productivity and adaptation to adverse climatic conditions. While rice
genome sequence has been available for years now, high quality and uniform
annotation is a necessity for genome sequence data to be fully utilized by
researchers.
Towards this, the completion of Rice Annotation Project (RAP)
database, based on the new chromosome pseudomolecule
Os-Nipponbare-Reference-IRGSP-1.0 (a joint version of IRGSP and MSU
pseudomolecules) is important.
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