New RNA polymerase discovered in plants
...e only other plant genome to be sequenced, despite rice being a monocotyledon and Arabidopsis a dicotyledon. "These two plants diverged 200 million years ago, and there is some speculation that this form of polymerase might extend twice as far back in evolution,' Pikaard said. Pikaard said that it is st......mpletion of a draft sequence of the Chinese hybrid rice genome, which was published in the Journal Science...archers have recently finished the fine map of the rice genome. In an article published by the recent issue of PLoS Biology (Vol.3 Issue 2, 2005), scientist...