The high selection pressure applied in rice breeding since its domestication thousands of
years ago has caused a narrowing in its genetic variability. Obtaining new rice cultivars …

Insertional mutagenesis is an indispensable tool for engendering a mutant population using
exogenous DNA as the mutagen. The advancement in the next-generation sequencing …

Background Regulation of gene expression by microRNAs (miRNAs) plays a crucial role in
many developmental and physiological processes in plants. miRNAs act to repress …

Mixed-linkage glucan (MLG) is a cell wall polysaccharide containing a backbone of
unbranched (1, 3)-and (1, 4)-linked β-glucosyl residues. Based on its occurrence in plants …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is the reference genome for the grasses, including cereals. The complete
genome sequence lays the foundation for comparative genomics to the other grasses based …

Rice is the most amenable crop plant for genetic manipulation amongst monocots due to its
small genome size, enriched genetic map, availability of entire genome sequence, and …

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous DNA segments capable of moving from one
site to another within host genomes. The extant distributions of TEs in eukaryotic genomes …

Rice is one of the most important crops in the world. The rice community needs to cooperate
and share efforts and resources so that we can understand the functions of rice genes …

Activation tagging, as the result of random genomic insertion of either promoter or enhancer
sequences, can produce novel, dominant mutations by over-expression of endogenous …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important crops. Rice researchers make
extensive use of insertional mutants for the study of gene function. Approximately half a …