Team:SJTU-software/Description
Background
Rice is one of the most important food crops for human beings. Nearly half of the world's population (more than 3 billion people) live on rice as their staple food. Therefore, how to effectively increase rice yield has become the key to solve global food problems. At present, in the world, the population of many developing countries or less developed countries is unable to solve the problem of food and clothing, and famine has become a major obstacle to the development of their countries. Our program is designed to solve the world's food problems and help more countries increase their food production.
It is an effective way to increase the rice yield in the world by screening high quality rice lines with good environmental adaptability, reducing the environmental requirements of rice planting and promoting rice planting in a wider range. It is an effective way to increase the yield of rice in the world by screening high quality rice lines with good environmental adaptability, reducing the environmental requirements of rice planting and promoting rice planting in a wider range. Relying on 3,010 rice genome sequencing work of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, our project conducts whole-genome sequencing and key locus functional analysis on a large number of rice samples, aiming to find gene combinations of key traits that can improve the environmental adaptability of rice, which will provide references for the development of new rice strains with high yield and high tolerance.
Description
We interviewed and consulted Prof. Chaochun Wei from the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the graduate students in his research group, who are mainly engaged in rice gene research. We then investigated Genomic variation in 3,010 Diverse Accessions of Asian Cultivated Rice in Nature to learn about the sequencing technology of rice genome and common trait screening criteria.
China has a miserable memory of suffering poverty and starving. Just 30 years ago, one in three Chinese people were in hunger. But China has made great progress in tackling hunger with the emergence of improved varieties such as hybrid rice technology. Today, less than 10% people in China are facing hunger.
Encouraged by the achievement in China, our project is going to provide adequate new knowledge of rice genetics and a solid theoretical foundation for rice breeding. Our project is designed to assist experimental research of stress-tolerance related to one of Oryza sativa L. We built a database including gene, RNA-seq, protein and other important information of Oryza sativa. We also helped evaluate and tag the undiscovered genes so that we can recommend genes most possibly related to stress-tolerance to researchers.
