Beijing - The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen recently announced the establishment of the CAAS Institute of Innovative Bio-breeding.
After its founding, the bio-breeding institute immediately launched a project to sequence 3,000 rice genomes in cooperation with the International Rice Research Institute, marking the start of China's genome molecular breeding project.
Recently, the newly founded institute will choose the staple food as its breakthrough point and after finishing the genomic sequencing work on the core substances (about 10,000 units) offered by the International Rice Research Institute, it will carry out polygenic-character convergent improvement based on the genome-wide selection and molecular recurrent selection based of the molecular design to breed high-yield, multi-resistant and high-quality green rice varieties.
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