The human genome shapes rice breeding. (2008)

Henry, RJ Waters, D

2008

This IREC Farmer Newsletter  presents information on the RIRDC funded project USC6A. The Sequenom®MassARRAY®, are a result of human genome developments and enabled efficient analysis of human genomes. These machines are now being used to gather information about rice. To date information of all five important rice genes are able to be obtain in a single test using the Sequenom® MassARRAY®. This is a vast improvement on eight different individual test that was required prior to the development of the Sequenom® MassARRAY®. This reduces cost and time to obtain the information to determine if the breeding line carries the desirable trait.