Scientists from Huazhong Agricultural University in central China's Hubei
Province have completed a high-resolution three-dimensional genome map of
rice. The team aimed to investigate the genome architecture and its effects
on rice growth through the map and published the results of their study in
Nature Communications.

The study will help reveal the genome architecture of rice and promote
research on the genetic improvement of rice and other crops, according to
the research team. The results of their study show specific
three-dimensional genome features of plant gametes and the unicellular
zygote, and provide a spatial chromatin basis for zygotic genome activation
and epigenetic regulation in plants.

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