supported by the Nationa1 Key Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.G1998010207);the Nationa1 Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30270747);the Nationa1 Special Program on Transgenic plants(Grant No.JY03A0501).
Rice xa5 gene provides recessive, race-specific resistance to bacterial blight disease caused by the pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and has great value for re-search and breeding. In an effort to clone xa5, an...
In order to accelerate the progress in research of hybrid wheat, it is necessary to find out new source of male sterile cytoplasm. Aegilops squarrosa cytoplasm has been considered ideal material for producing new male...