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Nature 457, 547-548 (29 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457547a; Published online 28 January 2009
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Plant genomics: Sorghum in sequence
Takuji Sasaki1 & Baltazar A. Antonio1
Abstract
The drought tolerance of sorghum is just one of the features that make it a valuable crop plant. There is much for agronomists to learn from the complete genome sequence of this type of grass.
It is almost four years since the genome sequence of the rice plant, Oryza sativa, was completed1. Rice is the world's most important crop, and the availability of an accurate, complete, map-based sequence of a cereal genome prompted ground-breaking studies of the genetic underpinning of valuable agricultural traits, both in rice itself and in other cereals.
- Takuji Sasaki and Baltazar A. Antonio are at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibakaki 305-8602, Japan.
Email: tsasaki@nias.affrc.go.jp
Email: antonio@nias.affrc.go.jp
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