supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100501);the National Transformation Science and Technology Program (2016ZX08001006-009);the ‘‘Ten-Thousand Talent Program”;the Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China;the Collaborative Innovation Center of Crop Stress Biology, Henan Province。
Asian cultivated rice(Oryza sativa L.)is a staple food crop in China.Accordingly,many studies have focused on grain size and weight as a means to in crease rice yield.Two main subgroups of cultivated rice,Indica and J...
supported by the Major Research Project of Natural Science Foundation of China (91735304);the Major Science and Technology Project to Create New Crop Cultivars using Gene Transfer Technology (2016ZX08001006);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100301)
Grain size is an important determinant of yield potential in crops. We previously demonstrated that natural mutations in the regulatory sequences of qSW5/GW5 confer grain width diversity in rice. However, the biologic...