Details for Gene organization in rice revealed by full-length cDNA mapping and gene expression analysis through microarray

Satoh K, Doi K, Nagata T, Kishimoto N, Suzuki K et al (2007). Gene organization in rice revealed by full-length cDNA mapping and gene expression analysis through microarray. PLoS ONE 2(11): e1235. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001235).

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a model organism for the functional genomics of monocotyledonous plants since the genome size is considerably smaller than those of other monocotyledonous plants. Although highly accurate genome sequences of indica and japonica rice are available, additional resources such as full-length complementary DNA (FL-cDNA) sequences are also indispensable for comprehensive analyses of gene structure and function. We cross-referenced 28.5K individual loci in the rice genome defined by mapping of 578K FL-cDNA clones with the 56K loci predicted in the TIGR genome assembly.