Polyploidy and zinc oxide nanoparticles alleviated Cd toxicity in rice by modulating oxidative stress and expression levels of sucrose and metal-transporter genes

F Ghouri, MJ Shahid, J Liu, M Lai, L Sun, J Wu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Cd toxicity causes severe perturbations to the plant's growth and development. Here,
polyploid and diploid rice lines were treated with zinc-oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) and …

A new way of rice breeding: Polyploid rice breeding

R Chen, Z Feng, X Zhang, Z Song, D Cai - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polyploid rice, first discovered by Japanese scientist Eiiti Nakamori in 1933, has a history of
nearly 90 years. In the following years, polyploid rice studies have mainly focused on …

The protective role of tetraploidy and nanoparticles in arsenic-stressed rice: Evidence from RNA sequencing, ultrastructural and physiological studies

F Ghouri, MJ Shahid, J Liu, L Sun, M Riaz… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Genome doubling in plants induces physiological and molecular changes to withstand
environmental stress. Diploid rice (D-2x) and its tetraploid (T-4x) plants were treated with 25 …

Rice and heavy metals: A review of cadmium impact and potential remediation techniques

W **a, F Ghouri, M Zhong, SAH Bukhari, S Ali… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the menace of heavy metals to food security and human health has
become a serious concern. Given its status as the primary provider of food globally …

Alleviated lead toxicity in rice plant by co-augmented action of genome doubling and TiO2 nanoparticles on gene expression, cytological and physiological changes

F Ghouri, MJ Shahid, M Zhong, MA Zia… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lead is a very toxic and futile heavy metal for rice plants because of its injurious effects on
plant growth and metabolic processes. Polyploidy or whole genome doubling increases the …

Comparative small RNA analysis of pollen development in autotetraploid and diploid rice

X Li, MQ Shahid, J Wu, L Wang, X Liu, Y Lu - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play key roles in plant reproduction. However, knowledge on
microRNAome analysis in autotetraploid rice is rather limited. Here, high-throughput …

Transcriptome analysis of neo-tetraploid rice reveals specific differential gene expressions associated with fertility and heterosis

H Guo, JN Mendrikahy, L **e, J Deng, Z Lu, J Wu… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Polyploid rice hybrids have a powerful biological and yield potential that may become a new
way for rice breeding; however, low fertility is major hindrance in commercial utilization …

Heterosis analysis and underlying molecular regulatory mechanism in a wide-compatible neo-tetraploid rice line with long panicles

MAA Ghaleb, C Li, MQ Shahid, H Yu, J Liang, R Chen… - BMC plant biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Neo-tetraploid rice, which is a new germplasm developed from autotetraploid
rice, has a powerful biological and yield potential and could be used for commercial …

Carbohydrate metabolism and fertility related genes high expression levels promote heterosis in autotetraploid rice harboring double neutral genes

L Chen, Y Yuan, J Wu, Z Chen, L Wang, MQ Shahid… - Rice, 2019 - Springer
Background Autotetraploid rice hybrids have great potential to increase the production, but
hybrid sterility is a major hindrance in the utilization of hybrid vigor in polyploid rice, which is …

Global identification and analysis revealed differentially expressed lncRNAs associated with meiosis and low fertility in autotetraploid rice

X Li, MQ Shahid, M Wen, S Chen, H Yu, Y Jiao, Z Lu… - BMC plant biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Autotetraploid rice is a useful germplasm for polyploid rice breeding. Our
previous research showed that non-coding RNAs might be associated with low fertility in …