Converted rice.

An international team of scientists map the genetic code of rice, prompting prompting

a stimulus that gets an animal to perform a desired behavior. hopes that science can find a way to improve the crop that feeds more than half the world's population.

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Title Annotation:	genetic code of rice
Author:	Taylor, Jeff A.
Publication:	Reason
Article Type:	Brief Article
Date:	Nov 1, 2005
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