Rice Expression Database: the gateway to rice functional genomics

Acknowledgements We thank Kenji Akiyama and Kei Iida for technical help and helpful discussions. We thank Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki for providing us with useful data. This work was supported by a grant for Genome Research from RIKEN, the Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Biosciences, the Special Coordination Fund of the Science and Technology Agency, and a Grant-inAid from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan to K.S. It was also supported in part by a Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (C) ‘Genome Science’ from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan to M. Seki. Motoaki Seki Masakazu Satou Tetsuya Sakurai Kazuo Shinozaki* Plant Mutation Exploration Team, Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan. *e-mail: sinozaki@rtc.riken.go.jp