With the improvement of people's living standards and rice trade worldwide, the demand for
high-quality rice is increasing. Therefore, breeding high quality rice is critical to meet the …

Background Quality is a powerful engine in rice value chain upgrading. However, there is no
consensus on how “rice quality” should be defined and measured in the rice sector. Scope …

Domestication is a good model for the study of evolutionary processes because of the recent
evolution of crop species (< 12,000 years ago), the key role of selection in their origins, and …

Asian rice, Oryza sativa is a cultivated, inbreeding species that feeds over half of the world's
population. Understanding the genetic basis of diverse physiological, developmental, and …

Fragrant rice is favoured worldwide because of its agreeable scent. The presence of a
defective badh2 allele encoding betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH 2) results in the …

Understanding the quantitative genetics of crops has been and will continue to be central to
maintaining and improving global food security. We outline four stages that plant breeding …

The cultivation of rice in Africa dates back more than 3,000 years. Interestingly, African rice is
not of the same origin as Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) but rather is an entirely different species …

What is the nature of the genetic changes underlying phenotypic evolution? We have
catalogued 1008 alleles described in the literature that cause phenotypic differences among …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

Fragrance in rice grains is a key quality trait determining its acceptability and marketability.
Intensive research on rice aroma identified mutations in betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase …