Rice Biology in the Genomics Era
Rice Biology in the Genomics Era
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10.1007/978-3-540-74250-0
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2008
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H. Hirano;Y. Sano;A. Hirai;Takuji Sasaki
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作者：
H. Hirano;Y. Sano;A. Hirai;Takuji Sasaki
水稻是世界上最重要的粮食作物之一。进行了改善水稻农艺品质的育种工作，并从基本生物学角度对水稻进行了研究。1991年，一本名为《水稻》（Bajaj博士编辑）的书作为《农林生物技术》（BAF）系列的第14卷出版，详细介绍了当时的水稻研究活动，主要侧重于细胞和组织培养以及遗传变异。自那时以来，对水稻的研究取得了根本性的进展，其成果如下。这是一个很好的理由来编写一本关于水稻的新书。水稻研究的情况在过去16年中发生了显著变化。首先，2004年国际水稻基因组测序计划完成了水稻基因组全序列测定。自2000年拟南芥基因组序列测定以来，水稻成为种子植物中第二个基因组被完全了解的物种。第二，通过农杆菌介导的方法转化水稻的技术已经开发出来，现在已经建立。在传统的植物病理学中，禾本科（包括水稻）没有被认为是农杆菌的宿主。与传统的原生质体转化方法相比，这种转化方法相对容易且可重复，目前已广泛用于水稻研究。
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important staple food crops in the world. Breeding efforts to improve the agronomical quality of rice have been conducted, and studies on rice from the viewpoint of basic biological interest have also been carried out. In 1991, a book entitled Rice (edited by Dr. Bajaj) was published as the 14th volume in the series Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (BAF), detailing rice research activities at that time, and focusing mainly on cell and tissue culture and genetic variability. Studies on rice have fundamentally advanced since then, whose outcomes are mentioned below. This is a good reason to compile a new volume on rice. The situation regarding rice research has markedly changed in the last 16 years. First, the genomic sequences of rice were completely determined by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project in 2004. Since the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana had been determined in 2000, rice became the second species in the seed plants to have its genome well understood. Second, the technology to transform rice by the Agrobacterium-mediated method was developed and is now established. In classical phytopathology, Poaceae (including rice) has not been considered as a host for Agrobacterium. This transformation method is relatively easy and reproducible as compared to conventional transformation methods using protoplasts, and is now widely used in rice research.