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 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 …

Rice is generally sensitive to chilling stress, which seriously affects growth and yield. Since
early in the last century, considerable efforts have been made to understand the …

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 …

The NAC domain was originally characterized from consensus sequences from petunia
NAM and from Arabidopsis ATAF1, ATAF2, and CUC2. Genes containing the NAC domain …

During embryonic pattern formation, the main body axes are established and cells of
different developmental fates are specified from a single-cell zygote. Despite the …

Grain weight is a major determinant of crop grain yield and is controlled by naturally
occurring quantitative trait loci (QTLs). We earlier identified a major QTL that controls rice …

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 …

Crop domestication frequently began with the selection of plants that did not naturally shed
ripe fruits or seeds. The reduction in grain shattering that led to cereal domestication …

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 …