Rational design of high-yield and superior-quality rice
April 07th,2017
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population. To meet the ever-increasing demand for food, because of population growth and improved living standards, world rice production needs to double by 2030. The development o...
OsCUL3a Negatively Regulates Cell Death and Immunity by Degrading OsNPR1 in Rice
February 09th,2017
The ubiquitin/proteasome pathway is a major system for the selective degradation of proteins in eukaryotes. Previous studies in plants have demonstrated that the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway is an essential component of the regulatory networks controlling...
Regulatory Role of OsMADS34 in the Determination of Glumes Fate, Grain Yiel...
January 23th,2017
In most flowering plants, flowers consist of sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, which are arranged in concentric whorls. Genetic and morphological studies of floral homeotic mutants in eudicots have established the classical ABC model of floral develop...
Genome Editing in Rice Using CRISPR-Cpf1 System
December 14th,2016
Cpf1 is a class 2/typeV CRISPR effector that has been recently harnessed for genome editing in animal and human cell. Compared with CRIPSR-Cas9 system, Cpf1 recognizes thymidine-rich sequence as the protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) at the 5’ end of target...
Fine mapping and candidate gene analysis of qHD5, a novel major QTL with plei...
November 02th,2016
Heading date (or flowering time, HD) represents one of the fundamental developmental events in the life cycle of the rice plant. It is one of the most important traits that enable rice to adapt to seasonal differences and specific growth conditions in div...