As one of the most important crops, Asian cultivated rice has evolved into a complex group
including several subgroups adapting various eco-climate-systems around the globe. Here …

Transcription factors (TFs) form the major class of regulatory genes and play key roles in
multiple plant stress responses. In most eukaryotic plants, transcription factor (TF) families …

Maize will continue to expand and diversify as an industrial resource and a feed and fuel
crop in the near future. The United Nations estimate that in 2050 the global population will …

Grain size is an important determinant of grain weight and yield in rice. Although several
genes related to grain size have been identified, natural variations in these genes that affect …

Grain size is a key factor influencing grain yield and appearance quality in rice. We identified
twelve quantitative trait loci (QTL) for grain length (GL), nine for grain width (GW), and nine …

Asian cultivated rice is a self-pollinating crop, which has already lost some traits of natural
outcrossing in the process of domestication. However, male sterility lines (MSLs) need to …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important food crop and has two subspecies, indica and japonica.
Since the last century, four generations of rice varieties have been applied to rice …

Rice varieties are required to have high yield and good grain quality. Grain chalkiness and
grain shape are two important traits of rice grain quality. Low chalkiness slender grains are …

Since the development of indica hybrid rice in the 1970s, great success has been achieved
in hybrid rice production in China and around the world. The utilization of inter-subspecific …

Rice is a staple food for 3.2 billion people. The food security threat that shook many Asian
countries in 2008 still looms, because farmers are facing the challenge of producing more …