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Golden hulled grains of heirloom rice cultivar Carolina Gold Select.
In addition to its culinary and cultural importance, Carolina Gold Select rice is resistant to strains of two important disease-causing bacteria. A high quality genome sequence was generated by combining long and short-read DNA sequencing technologies. All of the more than 400 disease resistance genes in Carolina Gold Select were identified and compared with those in other sequenced rice genomes. A candidate gene for the bacterial disease resistance was identified and discovered to have unusual features found in a small number of disease resistance genes across rice and several related species. The Carolina Gold Select genome is the first of a tropical japonica variety and represents a valuable resource for harnessing disease resistance as well as other useful traits. See Read et al.
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Citation: (2020) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 16(1) February 2020. PLoS Genet 16(1): ev16.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v16.i01
Published: February 14, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In addition to its culinary and cultural importance, Carolina Gold Select rice is resistant to strains of two important disease-causing bacteria. A high quality genome sequence was generated by combining long and short-read DNA sequencing technologies. All of the more than 400 disease resistance genes in Carolina Gold Select were identified and compared with those in other sequenced rice genomes. A candidate gene for the bacterial disease resistance was identified and discovered to have unusual features found in a small number of disease resistance genes across rice and several related species. The Carolina Gold Select genome is the first of a tropical japonica variety and represents a valuable resource for harnessing disease resistance as well as other useful traits. See Read et al.
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Image Credit: Kay Rentschler