Scientists Crack DNA Code of Rice

[sintax]

My Comment: Have they cracked the DNA of the milieu in which the rice is grown? The myth of Gene Theory continues. Should be good for more research which will, of course, require more funding.

Scientists Crack DNA Code of Rice

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
 

(08-10) 10:03 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --

An international team of scientists has deciphered the genetic code of rice, an advance that should speed improvements in a crop that feeds more than half the world's population.

It's the first crop plant to have its genome sequenced, which means scientists identified virtually all the 389 million chemical building blocks of its DNA. Certain sequences of these building blocks form genes, like letters spelling words.

The advance will help breeders produce new rice varieties with traits such as higher yield, improved nutritional content and better resistance to disease and pests, said one of the project's leaders, W. Richard McCombie of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

"I would think this is going to help people find genes and probably enhance the crop in well under 10 years," McCombie said.

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[joemurphy]

1. Whew! What a relief! I thought this meant they were going to

clone Condoleezza!

[tiptoe]

2. doh!

:thumbsup:

[sakabatou]

6. Now THAT would be scary

[Sanity Claws]

3. Oh, that rice! I thought you meant Condi

I've had questions whether she was human.

[slutticus]

4. No...they are still working on the Reptilian genome.

[NNadir]

5. I'm just dying to know what the "myth of Gene theory is."

Actually, I probably don't want to know.

[Igel]

10. Why does the name "Lysenko" spring to mind.

Yuck.
Must cleanse mind ... where's the beer?

[arwalden]

7. Perhaps One Day...

... we'll have grains of rice that are the size of small cucumbers.

[moggie]

8. Scary

Especially at weddings.

[Nihil]

9. LOL

The image that you've just conjured up ...
:spray: