Functional Analysis of the Rice Genome

Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population. In addition to its value as a food crop, rice is also a model for cereal genomics. Hence, the structural and functional analysis of rice has significance for other economically important cereals, including maize.

An international consortium is developing tools to facilitate the identification and functional analysis of the rice genome. As part of this consortium and in collaboration with H.H. Chou, the Schnable Laboratory is charged with the development and analysis of rice microarrays.

Also be sure to check out the NSF Rice Oligonucleotide Array Project, with which the Schnable Lab is also involved.