This team sequenced the fourth chromosome. Academia Sinica's Institute of Botany, in the meantime, has been taking part in an international project to map the rice genome.
無獨有偶地，台灣另一團隊──中研院植物研究所，也參與了另一重大國際合作的水稻基因體計畫，負責水稻第五條染色體的定序工作。