Most plants in the grass family-of which rice is a member-share a similar genetic profile, which means that information about the rice genome can also be applied to crops such as sorghum, maize and sugarcane.
而多數禾本科植物的基因序列很相似，因此，解開水稻的基因體後，對高粱、玉米、甘蔗等作物都有幫助。