Grain weight and size, mostly determined by grain length, width and thickness, are crucial traits affecting grain quality and yield in rice. A quantit......
Grain size is subtly regulated by multiple signaling pathways in rice. Alternative splicing is a general mechanism that regulates gene expression at t......
Abiotic stresses such as salinity and drought greatly impact the growth and production of crops worldwide. Here, a shikimate kinase-like 2 (SKL2) gene......
Rice kernel smut (RKS), caused by the fungus Tilletia horrida, has become a major disease in rice-growing areas worldwide, especially since the widesp......
Although type 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) have been demonstrated to play important roles in regulating plant development and various stress respon......
Chilling stress is the major abiotic stress that severely limited the seedling establishment of direct-seeded rice in temperate and sub-tropical rice ......
Nitrogen is not only a macronutrient essential for crop growth and development, but also one of the most critical nutrients in farmland ecosystem. Ins......
Background: Soil salinization is a worldwide environmental problem, especially in the arid and semiarid regions of northeastern China, which are heavi......
Plant height, as one of the important agronomic traits of rice, is closely related to yield. In recent years, plant height-related genes have been cha......
Breeding rice (Oryza sativa L.) with high yield, superior quality, desired grain shape and high resistance is the goal of breeding to meet the needs o......
Seed deterioration during rice seed storage can lead to seed vigor loss, which adversely affects agricultural production, the long-term preservation o......
Background Since its development and wide adoption in China, hybrid rice has reached the yield plateau for more than three decades. To understand the ......
Flower opening and stigma exertion are two critical traits for cross-pollination during seed production of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.). In this stud......
Wild abortive-type cytoplasmic male sterility (WA-type CMS) has been exclusively used in hybrid seed production in indica rice cultivars, and fertilit......
