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 …

Many important agronomic traits in crop plants, including stress tolerance, are complex traits
controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Isolation of these QTLs holds great promise to …

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

The transcription factors dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 1s (DREB1s)/C-
repeat-binding factors (CBFs) specifically interact with the DRE/CRT cis-acting element and …

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 …

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 …

To enhance our understanding of GA metabolism in rice (Oryza sativa), we intensively
screened and identified 29 candidate genes encoding the following GA metabolic enzymes …