Ninety-Five Percent of Rice Genome Sequenced

Ninety - five percent of the universe has gone missing . Or has it ?

Rice blast fungus sequenced

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major staple food crop for half of the world’s population. The International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, estimates that in order to feed the growing global population, rice production must increase by another one-third by the year 2020. Magnaporthe grisea (anamorph, Pyricularia oryzae) causes rice blast disease (Figure 1) and is the most destructive pathoge...

Genome of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis Granulovirus, the First Crambidae-Infecting Betabaculovirus Isolated from Rice Leaffolder to Sequenced

Cnaphalocrocis medinalis is a major pest of rice in South and South-East Asia. Insecticides are the major means farmers use for management. A naturally occurring baculovirus, C. medinalis granulovirus (CnmeGV), has been isolated from the larvae and this has the potential for use as microbial agent. Here, we described the complete genome sequence of CnmeGV and compared it to other baculovirus ge...

Drosophila melanogaster: a genome sequenced.

The release of the full genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster in March of 2000 must be heralded both as a milestone in Drosophila biology and genetics and as a triumph of modern biotechnology. But the true value of this accomplishment can be found in its beginnings, during a plenary session at a 1978 Drosophila meeting in La Jolla, California. The first speaker of the session was peppered ...

One hundred ninety-five cases of high-voltage electric injury.

High-voltage electric injury (HVEI) is associated with a high incidence of extremity compartment syndrome and of major amputation. The purpose of this study was to review our experience with HVEI and to attempt to develop predictors of the need for fasciotomy and amputation in patients with HVEI. The records of the 195 patients with HVEI who were admitted to a single burn center during a 19-yea...