date:Dec 10, 2015
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company, and BGI, the worlds largest genomics organization, announced a collaboration to create an extensive rice genetic resource library to advance food crop research and development.
Under the agreement, BGI and Arcadia will combine their resources and capabilities to create, sequence and characterize millions of new gene alleles to advance rice breeding globally. The collaboration will focus on 5,000 proprietary indica-type rice lines, p