University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines.
Nat Rev Genet. 2018 Aug;19(8):505-517. doi: 10.1038/s41576-018-0024-z.
Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems. This dual role places rice at the centre of an enormous challenge facing agriculture: how to leverage genomics to produce enough food to feed an expanding global population. Scientists worldwide are investigating the genetic variation among domesticated rice species and their wild relatives with the aim of identifying loci that can be exploited to breed a new generation of sustainable crops known as Green Super Rice.
大米是全球一半人口的主食，预计在未来 30 年内，全球人口将增加 30 亿。大米也是研究农业生态系统基因组学的重要模式生物。这种双重作用使水稻成为农业面临的巨大挑战的核心：如何利用基因组学生产足够的粮食来养活不断增长的全球人口。全世界的科学家都在研究驯化水稻品种及其野生亲缘种之间的遗传变异，目的是鉴定可以利用的基因座，以培育新一代被称为“绿色超级稻”的可持续作物。
