Partial Mutation of the Synaptonemal Complex Component Increases the Genetic Recombi...

May 07^th，2015

Genetic recombination results in novel allele combinations and is the most important genetic phenomenon for generating variation in breeding populations. However, in most organisms, the number of genetic recombinations is tightly constrained, which hamper...

CNRRI Wins National Award for Progress in Science and Technology - “Application of t...

January 16^th，2015

Past week saw the release of 2014 National Award for Progress in Science and Technology. The project “Application of the Key Cultivation Techniques of Super Rice and Its Regionalized Integration for High Yield” led by Professor Zhu Defeng’s research team ...

New Research Progress on Dissecting Yield-Associated Loci in Super Hybrid Rice

August 13^th，2013

With the expansion of world population and shrinkage of arable land, demand of rice yield improvement has been on the rise. Hybrid rice developed in China is contributing greatly to the world’s food production. The pioneer super hybrid rice developed by c...

Responses of super rice to different planting methods for grain yield and nitrogen-u...

August 29^th，2014

Up to 2012, 96 commercially released super rice varieties were grown on over 80 million ha in China. However, there was little increase in terms of large-scale rice production due to unreasonable agronomic practices. Therefore, understanding the yield res...

QTL qLSCHL4 increases yield of indica super rice 93-11

June 25^th，2014

The basic premise of high yield in rice is to improve leaf photosynthetic efficiency and coordinate the source-sink relationship in rice plants.