Genetics of high-rise rice

Rice genetics

Genetics and phylogenetics of rice domestication.

With genetically divergent cultivars and ecologically distinct wild progenitors, rice has posed a great challenge to the genetic and phylogenetic studies of the origin and evolution of crop species. A growing body of phylogenetic evidence suggested that the diverged genomic backgrounds of indica and japonica rice cultivars were derived independently from genetically distinct wild populations. H...

OryGenesDB: a database for rice reverse genetics

Insertional mutant databases containing Flanking Sequence Tags (FSTs) are becoming key resources for plant functional genomics. We have developed OryGenesDB (http://orygenesdb.cirad.fr/), a database dedicated to rice reverse genetics. Insertion mutants of rice genes are catalogued by Flanking Sequence Tag (FST) information that can be readily accessed by this database. Our database presently co...

Molecular genetics using T-DNA in rice.

Now that sequencing of the rice genome is nearly completed, functional analysis of its large number of genes is the next challenge. Because rice is easy to transform, T-DNA has been used successfully to generate insertional mutant lines. Collectively, several laboratories throughout the world have established at least 200,000 T-DNA insertional lines. Some of those carry the GUS or GFP reporters...

Genetics of Parkinson's disease: LRRK2 on the rise.

Our view of the pathogenic mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease has greatly changed over the past decade with the identification of several genes implicated in Mendelian forms of this disorder (Corti et al., 2005; Gasser et al., 2005). Parkin, DJ-1 and PINK1 are responsible for autosomal recessive forms, usually with early onset, that are not associated with Lewy bodies. a-Synuclein was considered...