Hsing Yu-yi, a researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Botany, explains that among food crops, rice has the smallest genome. The wheat genome, for example, is larger by a factor of 37-larger even than the human genome.
中研院植物所研究員邢禹依指出，水稻的基因體是所有作物中最小的，小麥的基因體足足比水稻大三十七倍，甚至比人體還大。