subspecies, cultivar, strain

[Junjian Ni]

Dear Steven,

I have not much background for the protein. Anyway, I think the species
(rice, or Oryza sativa), subspecies (japonica or indica), and accession
(you can also call strain, cultivar, variety) will be three different
levels.

Also, in your email, japonica should be subspecies, and Fujihikari
should be a cultivar. You can have more detailed infm at this URL:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acc_search.pl?accid=Fujihikari

Hope this infm helpful. Has a nice weekend.

Ni

Steven Schmidt wrote:

> In relation to  proteins,
> I would like to say that under species, there is only one level,
> which may be called subspecies, cultivar or strain.
> Is this correct?
>
> In the existing gramene database there is only one Protein
> that has a subspecies, GR:000032
> subspecies Fujihikari, cultivar japonica.
> But japonica is mentioned in many proteins with no subspecies,
> so I assume the subspecies is unnecessary here.
>
> Doreen suggested that there might be sub-cultivars.
> Is this so?
>
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> Steven Schmidt
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