Rice Mutant Resources Rice Mutant Resources for Gene Discovery Hirohiko Hirochika, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Gynheung An, Yue-ie Hsing, Moo Young Eun, Chang-deok Han, Narayana Upadhyaya, Srinivasan Ramachandran, Qifa Zhang, Andy Pereira, Venkatesan Sundaresan, Hei Leung, Rice Mutant Resources for Gene Discovery, Plant Molecular Biology, Volume 54, Issue 3, February 2004, Pages 325 - 334. With the completion of genomic sequencing of rice, rice has been firmly established as a model organism for both basic and applied research. The next challenge is to uncover the functions of genes predicted by sequence analysis. Considering the amount of effort and the diversity of disciplines required for functional analyses, extensive international collaboration is needed for this next goal. The aims of this review are to summarize the current status of rice mutant resources, key tools for functional analysis of genes, and our perspectives on how to accelerate rice gene discovery through collaboration. Various international groups are working to produce and characterize diverse rice mutant stocks. The table below provides links to such resources : Hirohiko Hirochika NIAS, Japan Tos17 Insertion Mutant Database Gyn An Postech Plant Functional Genomics Laboratory Korea T-DNA Insertion Mutants Narayana Upadhyaya CSIRO Plant Industry Rice Functional Genomics Group Australia T-DNA and Ds Insertion Mutants Susan McCouch Gramene, Cornell University, USA Mutant Phenotype Collection Yukiko Yamazaki Nori Kurata Oryzabase, NIG, Japan Mutant Phenotype Collection Hei Leung IRRI, Philippines IR64 Deletion Mutants See http://www.pi.csiro.au/grgm02/workshopformat.htm for a more complete list of research groups working on mutants. back to top