AGI & IRRI Release a Reference Genome Assembly for Miracle Rice

Nov. 29, 2016

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Miracle Rice (IR-8) the Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) (www.genome.arizona.edu) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) (www.irri.org) is proud to release* a reference genome assembly of IR-8 using PacBio RSII sequencing technology.

This work was funded by the AXA Research Fund to R.A.W. through IRRI.

(*Please note that our GenBank submission (MPPV00000000) is released under the Ft. Lauderdale agreement whereby the AGI/IRRI team reserves the right to publish a detailed analysis of the IR-8 in a forthcoming publication.)
 

For more information on IR-8 please access the following web pages.
https://irri.org/IR8#IR8-celebrations
https://www.voanews.com/a/anniversary- ... asia-famines/3623225.html