White Leaf and Panicle 2, encoding a PEP-associated protein,is required for chloropl...
October 24th,2017
Recently, an important progress on new regulatory mechanism of chloroplast biogenesis under higher temperature stress was achieved by a research team led by Professor Hu Peisong from China National Rice Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultura...
Dissecting Genetic Basis of Grain Shape and Chalkiness Traits in Hybrid Rice Using M...
September 07th,2017
Grain shape and chalkiness are two important components of rice grain quality. Previous studies have characterized several important genes controlling grain shape traits and a few QTLs that are responsible for grain chalkiness. However, the genetic archit...
Genomic variation associated with local adaptation of weedy rice during de-domestica...
Recently, researchers from China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Sheng Ting Biotechnology Co., Ltd., University of Virginia and Chinese Academy of Sciences collaboratively published an article entitled Genomic V...
Increasing the efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9-VQR precise genome editing in rice
June 26th,2017
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) is a revolutionary technology that enables efficient genomic modification in many organisms. Currently, the wide use of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCa...
Single-point Mutation of an Histidine-aspartic Domain-containing Gene involving in C...
June 14th,2017
Chloroplast is the main organelle for photosynthesis in plants. Rice leaves are the main sites for photosynthesis and the production of organic matter. Chloroplast is mainly in the plant leaves and the development of chloroplast closely related to leaves ...