FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept. 23 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
By John Lovett
UA Division of Agriculture
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -Scientists are getting a leg up on the rice stink bug, one of the most significant threats to rice, a staple food for nearly half of the world's population and a major crop in Arkansas.
With funding support from the Arkansas Biosciences Institute, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture's research arm, generated the first high-quality, chromosome-scale reference genome for the rice stink bug,Oebalus pugnax, identifying more than 13,000 genes with broad biological and agricultural relevance.
The development cre...