[extropy-chat] Rice genome mapped

[Damien Broderick]

Scientists Crack DNA Code of Rice

By MALCOLM RITTER
AP Science Writer

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-rice-genes,0,5029530,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

August 10, 2005, 1:03 PM EDT

NEW YORK -- An international team of scientists has deciphered the genetic 
code of rice, an advance that should speed improvements in a crop that 
feeds more than half the world's population. [until the hyper-anxious shut 
it down]

It's the first crop plant to have its genome sequenced, which means 
scientists identified virtually all the 389 million chemical building 
blocks of its DNA. [etc]