Researchers from the Department of Biotechnology\u2019s National Institute of Plant Genome Research (DBT-NIPGR), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (ICAR-NRRI), Cuttack and University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC), have identified a region in the genome of rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scientists conducted their study by sequencing the genomes of four Indian genotypes (LGR, PB 1121, Sonasal & Bindli) that show contrasting phenotype in seed size\/weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They then studied the DNA from 3,000 rice accessions from across the world along with the four Indian genotypes sequenced in the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They identified one long (~6 Mb) genomic region, which had an unusually suppressed nucleotide diversity region across the centromere of chromosome 5. They named it as `low diversity region\u2019 or LDR in short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new study assumes importance as in addition to genome-wide exploration, it has highlighted an important and a long domestication-related genomic region, which was found to be evolutionarily crafted to carry multiple agronomic traits associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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