Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead

R Chen, Y Deng, Y Ding, J Guo, J Qiu, B Wang… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Natural variations and genome-wide association studies in crop plants

X Huang, B Han - Annual review of plant biology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Natural variants of crops are generated from wild progenitor plants under both natural and
human selection. Diverse crops that are able to adapt to various environmental conditions …

Cytokinin oxidase regulates rice grain production

M Ashikari, H Sakakibara, S Lin, T Yamamoto… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Most agriculturally important traits are regulated by genes known as quantitative trait loci
(QTLs) derived from natural allelic variations. We here show that a QTL that increases grain …

A rice quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance encodes a sodium transporter

ZH Ren, JP Gao, LG Li, XL Cai, W Huang, DY Chao… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
Many important agronomic traits in crop plants, including stress tolerance, are complex traits
controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Isolation of these QTLs holds great promise to …

Comprehensive Analysis of NAC Family Genes in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana

H Ooka, K Satoh, K Doi, T Nagata, Y Otomo… - DNA …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The NAC domain was originally characterized from consensus sequences from petunia
NAM and from Arabidopsis ATAF1, ATAF2, and CUC2. Genes containing the NAC domain …

Functional analysis of rice DREB1/CBF-type transcription factors involved in cold-responsive gene expression in transgenic rice

Y Ito, K Katsura, K Maruyama, T Taji… - Plant and Cell …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The transcription factors dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 1s (DREB1s)/C-
repeat-binding factors (CBFs) specifically interact with the DRE/CRT cis-acting element and …

An overview of gibberellin metabolism enzyme genes and their related mutants in rice

T Sakamoto, K Miura, H Itoh, T Tatsumi… - Plant …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
To enhance our understanding of GA metabolism in rice (Oryza sativa), we intensively
screened and identified 29 candidate genes encoding the following GA metabolic enzymes …

The map-based sequence of the rice genome

International Rice Genome Sequencing Project… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Rice, one of the world's most important food plants, has important syntenic relationships with
the other cereal species and is a model plant for the grasses. Here we present a map-based …

Breeding high-yield superior quality hybrid super rice by rational design

Q Qian, L Guo, SM Smith, J Li - National Science Review, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The challenge of meeting the increasing demand for worldwide rice production has driven a
sustained quest for advances in rice breeding for yield. Two breakthroughs that led to …

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications

J Yu, J Wang, W Lin, S Li, H Li, J Zhou, P Ni… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and
japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over …