Green Super Rice Project Funded by the Chinese Government & the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Selects Affymetrix Axiom® Ge...
September 21 2015 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) announced today that it has been
selected as the genotyping supplier by the Green Super Rice project
coordinated by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences as part
of their effort to develop, within the next three years, at least
fifteen new rice varieties and deliver them to small-hold farmers
in 16 countries in Africa and Asia, including China.
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The Green Super Rice (GSR) project includes building a highly
efficient genotyping platform for the large-scale molecular
breeding activities within the international rice research
community. The Green Super Rice project is supported by the Chinese
government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and aims to
increase the income of resource-limited rice producers by the
development and wide-adoption of GSR varieties and corresponding
crop management technology. The long-term goal of the project is to
benefit at least 20 million resource-limited rice farmers and to
boost rice productivity by 20% in the target countries.
“We are excited and very happy to see that the efforts of the
rice community in the Green Super Rice project coming to fruition.
The Green Super Rice project is the world’s first rice project that
is helping lead the scientific and breeding breakthroughs achieved
by the efforts of the Chinese rice scientists to release elite
cultivars suitable for growth in the target countries,” stated
Professor Zhikang Li, project director of GSR, Institute of Crop
Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. “We selected
the Axiom genotyping platform from Affymetrix due to the platform’s
capability to screen millions of markers and accurately transfer
them to smaller 384HT format arrays. Such precision and fidelity is
not available on any other genotyping platform.”
The genotyping array, specifically designed for the Green Super
Rice project, reflects an unprecedented effort by the rice
community to leverage over 20 million SNP markers that were
discovered in the 3000 Rice Genomes Project. This array uses a
novel SNP genotyping marker screening process to screen more than 2
million selected rice SNP markers to identify relevant and valuable
markers with high accuracy and precision.
A subset of the 2 million markers identified on the rice
screening genotyping array will be transferred with 100 percent
accuracy onto the Axiom 384HT-format to create the new array. This
new Axiom GSR Rice Array, consisting of approximately 55,000
markers, will enable ultra high-throughput processing and analysis
of 384 samples simultaneously and will be used to screen thousands
of samples in a highly cost-effective manner.
“We are pleased to be able to support the goals of the Green
Super Rice Project to help the rice community develop new
varieties, address the needs of rice breeders, and to help achieve
self-sustainable rice production and food security,” said Laurent
Bellon, Ph.D., senior vice president and general manager,
Genotyping Business Unit at Affymetrix. “The superior array design,
bioinformatics and software capabilities available with the Axiom
platform are playing a key role in advancing multiple agriculture
projects around the world. Affymetrix is committed to meet the
agricultural community’s needs with advanced technologies that are
practical, easy to use, and cost effective.”
With Affymetrix’ advanced bioinformatics and innovative design
strategies, Axiom genotyping array designs routinely support
genome-wide genotyping applications and accurately call the
genotypes of both diploid and polyploid species.
To learn more about the Axiom genotyping platform, please visit
www.affymetrix.com/agrigenotyping for applications in
agrigenomics.
About Green Super Rice Project
“Green Super Rice for the Resources-Poor of Africa and Asia” is
a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded rice research project
with the aim to develop Green Super Rice (GSR) varieties that
produce high and stable yields under low-inputs and to transfer
corresponding crop management technology to the resources-poor rice
farmers in fifteen countries across Africa and Asia and four
Southwestern provinces in China. The GSR project’s mission is to
help achieve self-sustainable rice production and food security in
the target countries and regions. Find out more at
http://gsr.org.cn/
About Affymetrix
Affymetrix provides leadership and support, partnering with
customers in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and biotechnology
companies, as well as leading academic, government, and non-profit
research institutes in their quest to use biology for a better
world. More than 2,300 microarray systems have been shipped around
the world and more than 94,000 peer-reviewed papers have been
published citing Affymetrix technologies. Affymetrix is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has manufacturing
facilities in Cleveland, San Diego, Vienna, and Singapore.
Affymetrix has about 1,100 employees and maintains sales and
distribution operations worldwide. For more information about
Affymetrix, please visit www.affymetrix.com
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