<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The China Rice Functional Genomics Program (CRFGP) was initiated in 1999 by the
Ministry of Science and Technology of China under the National Basic Sciences Initiative
and was expected to last for an initial period of five years. The CRFGP involves 20
research groups from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and some major universities and
focuses on the identification of genes controlling flowering, plant architecture, fertility,
reproduction, metabolic controls and stress responses in rice through a combinatorial
approach based on genetics, molecular biology and functional genomics as well as the
generation of intellectual properties related to crop breeding and improvements. We will
briefly describe the mission of the CRFGP as well as its recent progress.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Apr; 3(2):161-163