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The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP), a consortium of publicly funded laboratories, was established in 1997 to obtain a high quality, map-based sequence of the rice genome using the cultivar Nipponbare of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica. It is currently comprised of ten members: Japan, the United States of America, China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Thailand, France, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The IRGSP adopts the clone-by-clone shotgun sequencing strategy so that each sequenced clone can be associated with a specific position on the genetic map and adheres to the policy of immediate release of the sequence data to the public domain. In December 2004, the IRGSP completed the sequencing of the rice genome. The high-quality and map-based sequence of the entire genome is now available in public databases.

• IRGSP Build5 Pseudomolecules of the Rice Genome

• Redistribution of genomic sequence (build 3) of the cultivar Nipponbare of Oryza sativa ssp. japonica assigned with RAP annotation

• IRGSP Releases Build 4.0 Pseudomolecules of the Rice Genome

• The world's no. 1 food crop is now completely sequenced

• IRGSP Releases Build 3.0 Pseudomolecules of Rice Genome

• IRGSP releases the assembled rice genome sequences

  • Completion of rice genome sequence reported to the Minister of MAFF (Japanese).

• IRGSP celebrates the completion of the sequence

  • Japanese Bioportal site, Jabion column 17 (Japanase)

• Rice chromosome 10 sequence finished (2003)

• Rice chromosomes 1 and 4 sequence finished (2002)

  • Completion of the rice genome sequence announced (Dec 2002)

  • Graphical view of chromosomal sharing for sequencing 2004.11 final

• Reasons for Finishing the Rice Genome

• IRGSP Response to Publication of Draft Sequences of the Rice Genome

Rice Functional Genomics, Challenges, Progress and Prospects. Springer, Upadhyaya, Narayana M. (Ed.) [Springer] [Amazon] Decoding the rice genome Vij S, Gupta V, Kumar D, Vydianathan R, Raghuvanshi S, Khurana P, Khurana JP, Tyagi AK. BioEssays 28.4: 421-432 A fine physical map of the rice chromosome 5 Cheng CH, Chung MC, Liu SM, Chen SK, Kao FY, Lin SJ, Hsiao SH, Tseng IC, Hsing YI, Wu HP, Chen CS, Shaw JF, Wu J, Matsumoto T, Sasaki T, Chen HH, Chow TY. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 274: 337-345 The sequence of rice chromosomes 11 and 12, rich in disease resistance genes and recent gene duplications The Rice Chromosomes 11 and 12 Sequencing Consortia BMC Biology 2005, 3:20 Sequence, annotation, and analysis of synteny between rice chromosome 3 and diverged grass species The Rice Chromosome 3 Sequencing Consortium Genome Research 15:1284-1291, 2005 The map-based sequence of the rice genome International Rice Genome Sequencing Project. Nature 436: 793-800 In-Depth View of Structure, Activity, and Evolution of Rice Chromosome 10 The Rice Chromosome 10 Sequencing Consortium Science 300:1566-1569 The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 1 Sasaki T, Matsumoto T, Yamamoto K, Sakata K, Baba T, Katayose Y, Wu J, Niimura Y, Cheng Z, Nagamura Y, Antonio BA, Kanamori H, Hosokawa S, Masukawa M, Arikawa K, Chiden Y, Hayashi M, Okamoto M, Ando T, Aoki H, Arita K, Hamada M, Harada C, Hijishita S, Honda M, Ichikawa Y, Idonuma A, Iijima M, Ikeda M, Ikeno M, Ito S, Ito T, Ito Y, Ito Y, Iwabuchi A, Kamiya K, Karasawa W, Katagiri S, Kikuta A, Kobayashi N, Kono I, Machita K, Maehara T, Mizuno H, Mizubayashi T, Mukai Y, Nagasaki H, Nakashima M, Nakama Y, Nakamichi Y, Nakamura M, Namiki N, Negishi M, Ohta I, Ono N, Saji S, Sakai K, Shibata M, Shimokawa T, Shomura A, Song J, Takazaki Y, Terasawa K, Tsuji K, Waki K, Yamagata H, Yamane H, Yoshiki S, Yoshihara R, Yukawa K, Zhong H, Iwama H, Endo T, Ito H, Hahn JH, Kim HI, Eun MY, Yano M, Jiang J, Gojobori T. Nature 420:312-316 Sequence and analysis of rice chromosome 4 Feng Q, Zhang Y, Hao P, Wang S, Fu G, Huang Y, Li Y, Zhu J, Liu Y, Hu X, Jia P, Zhang Y, Zhao Q, Ying K, Yu S, Tang Y, Weng Q, Zhang L, Lu Y, Mu J, Lu Y, Zhang LS, Yu Z, Fan D, Liu X, Lu T, Li C, Wu Y, Sun T, Lei H, Li T, Hu H, Guan J, Wu M, Zhang R, Zhou B, Chen Z, Chen L, Jin Z, Wang R, Yin H, Cai Z, Ren S, Lv G, Gu W, Zhu G, Tu Y, Jia J, Zhang Y, Chen J, Kang H, Chen X, Shao C, Sun Y, Hu Q, Zhang X, Zhang W, Wang L, Ding C, Sheng H, Gu J, Chen S, Ni L, Zhu F, Chen W, Lan L, Lai Y, Cheng Z, Gu M, Jiang J, Li J, Hong G, Xue Y, Han B. Nature 420:316-320

• IRGSP Website in the Current Web Contents of Thomson Scientific

• "The map-based sequence of the rice genome(Nature 436:793-800)" is selected as one of New Hot Papers by ESI

  • Sasaki won the special award from the The Botanical Society of Japan (Japanese).

• RGP Paper Tops PCP Access Hits

• International Year of Rice 2004 Research Accomplishment Award for IRGSP

• RGP won the "International Year of Rice Global Scientific Contest"

• Sasaki receives the "Golden Sickle Award"

• US Rice Genome Consortium receives USDA SecretaryЎЗs Honor Awards

• Rice chromosome 1 article is selected as one of New Hot Papers by ISI

• IRGSP receives the 2003 World Technology Award

  • RGP won the special award from the Japanese Society of Breeding on April 2003 (Japanese).

• • Report of 2004 2nd Interim Working Group Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, November 18,2004

  • Report of 2004 Working Group Meeting in Tsukuba, February 4, 2004 , Group photo at the finishing workshop

  • Report of 2003 2nd Working Group Meeting in Shanghai, November 22, 2003

  • Report of 2003 Working Group Meeting in Tsukuba, February 5, 2003

  • Report of 2002 2nd Interim Working Group Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, December 19,2002

  • Report of 2002 Interim Working Group Meeting in Genoscope, France, May 23-24,2002 , Group photo at the meeting

  • Report of 2002 Working Group Meeting and Sequencing Workshop in Tsukuba,February 5-6, 2002

  • IRGSP Press Release, December 21,2001

  • Report of 2001 Interim Working Group Meeting in TIGR, USA, October 29-30,2001

  • Report of IRGSP Technical Workshop,June 8,2001 , Group photo at the meeting

  • International Rice Genome Sequencing Project Guidelines(Revised Feb 2001)

  • Press Release on IRGSP Working Group Meeting, February 9, 2001

  • Report of 2001 Sequencing Workshop and Working Group Meeting, February 8, 2001

  • Report of 2000 Interim Working Group Meeting in Clemson, USA, September 19-20, 2000

  • Monsanto Sequence and Physical Map Contribution to the IRGSP (April 2000)

  • Report of 1999 Interim Working Group Meeting in Phuket,Thailand, September 20, 1999

  • Report of Second Working Group Meeting in Tsukuba, Japan February 7, 1999 , Group photo at the meeting

  • Report of Interim Working Group Meeting in Miami Beach, Florida September 17, 1998

• An International Collaboration to Sequence the Rice Genome

• Newsletter for International Rice Genome Sequencing Project

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