Rice Genome Publication Is Milestone in Struggle Atainst Hunger

It is only appropriate that during the Vincentian Family’s project, The Globalization of Charity – The Struggle Against Hunger, that the first food grain genome is published. As reported in 5 April 2002 issue of the journal Science, two research organizations have independently published draft genomes of rice, the most commonly used food grain in the world. As a condition of publication, the genome data must be made publicly available. And that data should be valuable for researchers working to make this food grain even more abundant.

The rice genome is the simplest of the food grains. Other food grains are much more complex, but the unraveling of their genomes will be much easier because of last week’s announcement.

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