Despite the dramatic increase in food production thanks to the Green Revolution, hunger is
increasing among human populations around the world, affecting one in nine people. The …

Koshihikari, a Japanese short-grain rice cultivar, was developed in 1956, more than 60
years ago. Despite its age, it has been the most widely grown cultivar in Japan for more than …

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 …

Backcross inbred lines (BILs) derived from elite x wild crosses are very useful for basic
studies and breeding. The aim of this study was to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) …

Background Domestication from wild rice species to cultivated rice is a key milestone, which
involved changes of many specific traits and the variations of the genetic systems. Among …

The narrow base of genetic diversity of modern rice varieties is mainly attributed to the
overuse of the common backbone parents that leads to the lack of varied favorable alleles in …

O. meridionalis is a wild species belonging to AA genome in the Oryza genus, which has a
lot of beneficial genes for improvement of cultivated rice. In the present study, 99 …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple food in the world. To meet the
increasing demand for food, a strategy for improving rice yield is needed. Alleles of wild …

Raman spectroscopy was applied to characterize at the molecular scale the nutritional
quality of the Japanese Koshihikari rice cultivar in comparison with other renowned rice …

Wild rice species have long awns at their seed tips, but this trait has been lost through rice
domestication. Awn loss mitigates harvest and seed storage; further, awnlessness increases …