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  1. Abiotic stresses such as salinity and drought greatly impact the growth and production of crops worldwide. Here, a shikimate kinase-like 2 (SKL2) gene was cloned from rice and characterized for its regulatory fun...

    Authors: Yingli Jiang, Xiaojian Peng, Qin Zhang, Yuqing Liu, Aiqi Li, Beijiu Cheng and Jiandong Wu
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:46
  2. Improved Samba Mahsuri (ISM) is an elite, high-yielding, bacterial blight resistant, fine-grained rice variety with low glycaemic index. It is highly sensitive to salt stress, particularly at seedling stage, w...

    Authors: G. Rekha, V. Abhilash Kumar, C. G. Gokulan, M. B. V. N. Koushik, B. Laxmi Prasanna, Swapnil Kulkarni, D. Aleena, G. Harika, S. K. Hajira, K. Pranathi, E. Punniakoti, R. R. Kale, T. Dilip Kumar, D. Ayyappa, M. Anila, Pragya Sinha…
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:45
  3. Endo-β-1,4-Xylanases are a group of extracellular enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of xylan, a principal constituent of the plant primary cell wall. The contribution of Endo-β-1,4-Xylanase I to both physio...

    Authors: Ammarah Shabbir, Wajjiha Batool, Dan Yu, Lili Lin, Qiuli An, Chen Xiaomin, Hengyuan Guo, Shuangshuang Yuan, Sekete Malota, Zonghua Wang and Justice Norvienyeku
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:44
  4. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) grain hull color is an easily observable trait and regarded as a crucial morphological marker in rice breeding. Here, a purple gradient grain hull mutant (pg) was found from natural mutatio...

    Authors: Fantao Zhang, Limin Yang, Wenxue Huang, Xiangdong Luo, Jiankun Xie, Biaolin Hu and Yaling Chen
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:43
  5. Salicylic acid (SA) is thought to be involved in phosphorus (P) stress response in plants, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we showed that P deficiency significantly increas...

    Authors: Qi Wu, Huai-Kang Jing, Zhi-Hang Feng, Jing Huang, Ren-Fang Shen and Xiao-Fang Zhu
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:42
  6. Rice bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is one of the most serious diseases affecting rice production worldwide. Xa21 was the first disease resistance gene cloned in rice, which enco...

    Authors: Zheng Zhu, Tianxingzi Wang, Jinping Lan, Jinjiao Ma, Haiqing Xu, Zexi Yang, Yalu Guo, Yue Chen, Jianshuo Zhang, Shijuan Dou, Ming Yang, Liyun Li and Guozhen Liu
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:41
  7. Flower opening and stigma exertion are two critical traits for cross-pollination during seed production of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.). In this study, we demonstrate that the miR167d-ARFs module regulates stigm...

    Authors: Zhi-Xue Zhao, Xiao-Xiao Yin, Sha Li, Yu-Ting Peng, Xiu-Lian Yan, Chen Chen, Beenish Hassan, Shi-Xin Zhou, Mei Pu, Jing-Hao Zhao, Xiao-Hong Hu, Guo-Bang Li, He Wang, Ji-Wei Zhang, Yan-Yan Huang, Jing Fan…
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:40
  8. Understanding pollen tube growth is critical for crop yield maintenance. The pollen tube provides a path for sperm cells for fertilization with egg cells. Cells must be subdivided into functionally and structu...

    Authors: Sunok Moon, Yu-Jin Kim, Ha Eun Park, Junhyup Kim, Yun Shil Gho, Woo-Jong Hong, Eui-Jung Kim, Su Kyoung Lee, Byung-Chang Suh, Gynheung An and Ki-Hong Jung
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:39
  9. Although targeted genome editing technology has become a powerful reverse genetic approach for accelerating functional genomics, conventional mutant libraries induced by chemical mutagens remain valuable for p...

    Authors: Takahiko Kubo, Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Hiroaki Matsusaka, Atsushi Toyoda, Yutaka Sato and Toshihiro Kumamaru
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:38
  10. Being one of the most important staple dietary constituents globally, genetic enhancement of cultivated rice for yield, agronomically important traits is of substantial importance. Even though the climatic fac...

    Authors: Palvi Malik, Mao Huang, Kumari Neelam, Dharminder Bhatia, Ramanjeet Kaur, Bharat Yadav, Jasdeep Singh, Clay Sneller and Kuldeep Singh
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:37
  11. DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic modification which is vital for regulating gene expression and maintaining genome stability in both mammals and plants. Homozygous mutation of rice methyltransferase 1 (m...

    Authors: Shuo Liu, Yu Bao, Hui Deng, Guanqing Liu, Yangshuo Han, Yuechao Wu, Tao Zhang and Chen Chen
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:35
  12. Although type 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) have been demonstrated to play important roles in regulating plant development and various stress responses, their specific roles in rice abiotic stress tolerance ...

    Authors: Qing Liu, Jierong Ding, Wenjie Huang, Hang Yu, Shaowen Wu, Wenyan Li, Xingxue Mao, Wenfeng Chen, Junlian Xing, Chen Li and Shijuan Yan
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:34
  13. Heat stress during gametogenesis leads to spikelet sterility. To ascertain the role of female reproductive organ (pistil), two rice genotypes N22 and IR64 with contrasting heat stress responses were exposed to...

    Authors: Wanju Shi, Juan Yang, Ritesh Kumar, Xinzheng Zhang, Somayanda M. Impa, Gui Xiao and S. V. Krishna Jagadish
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:32
  14. Sheath blight (ShB) disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kühn, is one of the most economically damaging rice (Oryza sativa L.) diseases worldwide. There are no known major resistance genes, leaving only partial r...

    Authors: Danting Li, Fantao Zhang, Shannon R. M. Pinson, Jeremy D. Edwards, Aaron K. Jackson, Xiuzhong Xia and Georgia C. Eizenga
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:31
  15. High-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies offer a powerful approach to characterizing the transcriptomes of plants. Long read sequencing has been shown to support the discovery of novel isoforms ...

    Authors: Sharmin Hasan, Lichun Huang, Qiaoquan Liu, Virginie Perlo, Angela O’Keeffe, Gabriel Rodrigues Alves Margarido, Agnelo Furtado and Robert J. Henry
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:29
  16. Resistant starch (RS) is beneficial for human health. Loss of starch branching enzyme IIb (BEIIb) increases the proportion of amylopectin long chains, which greatly elevates the RS content. Although high RS co...

    Authors: Satoko Miura, Maiko Narita, Naoko Crofts, Yuki Itoh, Yuko Hosaka, Naoko F. Oitome, Misato Abe, Rika Takahashi and Naoko Fujita
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:28
  17. Plant height, as one of the important agronomic traits of rice, is closely related to yield. In recent years, plant height-related genes have been characterized and identified, among which the DWARF3 (D3) gene is...

    Authors: Juan Zhao, Xing Liu, Mei Wang, Lingjuan Xie, Zhengxin Wu, Jiuming Yu, Yuchen Wang, Zhiqiao Zhang, Yufang Jia and Qingpo Liu
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:27
  18. Plant height is a key factor in the determination of rice yield since excessive height can easily cause lodging and reduce yield. Therefore, the identification and analysis of plant height-related genes to elu...

    Authors: Wei Xin, HuaLong Liu, Luomiao Yang, Tianze Ma, Jingguo Wang, Hongliang Zheng, Wenxing Liu and Detang Zou
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:26
  19. Most agronomic traits of rice (Oryza sativa), such as grain length, are complex traits controlled by multiple genes. Chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) are ideal materials for dissecting these complex ...

    Authors: Juan Li, Hongxia Yang, Guangyi Xu, Keli Deng, Jinjin Yu, Siqian Xiang, Kai Zhou, Qiuli Zhang, Ruxiang Li, Miaomiao Li, Yinghua Ling, Zhenglin Yang, Guanghua He and Fangming Zhao
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:25
  20. As a major food crop and model organism, rice has been mostly studied with the largest number of functionally characterized genes among all crops. We previously built the funRiceGenes database including ~ 2800...

    Authors: Fangfang Huang, Yingru Jiang, Tiantian Chen, Haoran Li, Mengjia Fu, Yazhou Wang, Yufang Xu, Yang Li, Zhengfu Zhou, Lihua Jia, Yidan Ouyang and Wen Yao
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:23
  21. Successful cultivation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in many Asian countries requires submergence stress tolerance at the germination and early establishment stages. Two quantitative trait loci, Sub1 (conferring subm...

    Authors: Na-Hyun Shin, Jae-Hyuk Han, Kieu Thi Xuan Vo, Jeonghwan Seo, Ian Paul Navea, Soo-Cheul Yoo, Jong-Seong Jeon and Joong Hyoun Chin
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:22
  22. Chilling stress is the major abiotic stress that severely limited the seedling establishment of direct-seeded rice in temperate and sub-tropical rice production regions. While seed priming is an efficient pre-...

    Authors: Lixiao Nie, Shaokun Song, Qi Yin, Tingcheng Zhao, Hongyan Liu, Aibin He and Weiqin Wang
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:19
  23. Breeding rice (Oryza sativa L.) with high yield, superior quality, desired grain shape and high resistance is the goal of breeding to meet the needs of current consumers. It is usually hard to combine multiple co...

    Authors: Manman Liu, Fengfeng Fan, Shihao He, Yu Guo, Gaili Chen, Nannan Li, Nengwu Li, Huanran Yuan, Fengfeng Si, Fang Yang and Shaoqing Li
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:17
  24. Inoculating rice plants by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) may be used as a practical and eco-friendly approach to sustain the growth and yield of drought stressed rice plants. The effect of rice i...

    Authors: Taia A. Abd El-Mageed, Shimaa A. Abd El-Mageed, Mohamed T. El-Saadony, Sayed Abdelaziz and Nasr M. Abdou
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:16
  25. Ep type is an important morphological improvement (following dwarf breeding and ideal plant type) that has contributed to breeding super-high yielding, and shows a pleiotropic effect in increasing grain yield ...

    Authors: Sibo Chen, Shuangjie Chen, Yihui Jiang, Qing Lu, Zhongyuan Liu, Wanying Liu, Xuhong Wang, Wenhua Shi, Quan Xu, Jian Sun, Fan Zhang and Liang Tang
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:15

    The Correction to this article has been published in Rice 2022 15:20

  26. Estimating genetic trends using historical data is an important parameter to check the success of the breeding programs. The estimated genetic trends can act as a guideline to target the appropriate breeding s...

    Authors: Apurva Khanna, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos, Jérôme Bartholomé, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, John Damien Platten, Daniel Joseph Pisano, Alaine Gulles, Ma Teresa Sta. Cruz, Joie Ramos, Gem Faustino, Sankalp Bhosale and Waseem Hussain
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:14
  27. Phenotypic differences among breeding lines that introduce the same superior gene allele can be a barrier to effective development of cultivars with desirable traits in some crop species. For example, a defici...

    Authors: Kiyosumi Hori, Tomoya Okunishi, Kenji Nakamura, Ken Iijima, Masahiro Hagimoto, Katsuyuki Hayakawa, Koka Shu, Takashi Ikka, Hiroto Yamashita, Masanori Yamasaki, Yoshinobu Takeuchi, Shota Koyama, Yoshimasa Tsujii, Toshiaki Kayano, Takuro Ishii, Toshihiro Kumamaru…
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:13
  28. Background OsWRKY62 and OsWRKY76, two close members of WRKY transcription factors, function together as transcriptional repressors. OsWRKY62 is predominantly localized in the cytosol. What are the regulatory fact...

    Authors: Xiaohui Xu, Han Wang, Jiqin Liu, Shuying Han, Miaomiao Lin, Zejian Guo and Xujun Chen
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:12
  29. Improvement in photosynthesis is one of the most promising approaches to increase grain yields. Transgenic rice plants overproducing Rubisco by 30% (RBCS-sense rice plants) showed up to 28% increase in grain yiel...

    Authors: Marin Tanaka, Mamoru Keira, Dong-Kyung Yoon, Tadahiko Mae, Hiroyuki Ishida, Amane Makino and Keiki Ishiyama
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:10
  30. Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) causes bacterial leaf blight, a devastating disease of rice. Among the type-3 effectors secreted by Xoo to support pathogen virulence, the Transcription Activator-Like Effector...

    Authors: Marlène Lachaux, Emilie Thomas, Adam J. Bogdanove, Boris Szurek and Mathilde Hutin
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:9
  31. Silicon (Si) fertiliser can improve rice (Oryza sativa) tolerance to salinity. The rate of Si uptake and its associated benefits are known to differ between plant genotypes, but, to date, little research has been...

    Authors: Sarah J. Thorne, Petra M. Stirnberg, Susan E. Hartley and Frans J. M. Maathuis
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:8
  32. Seed deterioration during rice seed storage can lead to seed vigor loss, which adversely affects agricultural production, the long-term preservation of germplasm resources, and the conservation of species dive...

    Authors: Bing-Xian Chen, Hua Fu, Jia-Dong Gao, Yi-Xin Zhang, Wen-Jie Huang, Zhong-Jian Chen, Qi-Zhang, Shi-Juan Yan and Jun Liu
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:7
  33. Formins are actin-binding proteins that are key to maintaining the actin cytoskeleton in cells. However, molecular mechanisms controlling the stability of formin proteins in plants remain unknown. Here, we hav...

    Authors: Shuwei Chang, Guoqiang Huang, Duoxiang Wang, Wanwan Zhu, Jianxin Shi, Litao Yang, Wanqi Liang, Qi Xie and Dabing Zhang
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:6
  34. Rice is one of the most important food crops in Asia. Genetic analyses of complex traits and molecular breeding studies in rice greatly rely on the construction of various genetic populations. Chromosome segme...

    Authors: Jiongjiong Fan, Hua Hua, Zhaowei Luo, Qi Zhang, Mengjiao Chen, Junyi Gong, Xin Wei, Zonghua Huang, Xuehui Huang and Qin Wang
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:5
  35. Grain size is subtly regulated by multiple signaling pathways in rice. Alternative splicing is a general mechanism that regulates gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. However, to our knowledge, t...

    Authors: Lei Liu, Ying Zhou, Feng Mao, Yujuan Gu, Ziwei Tang, Yi Xin, Fuxia Liu, Tang Tang, Hui Gao and Xiangxiang Zhao
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:4
  36. Authors: Xiu‑Qing Jing, Wen‑Qiang Li, Meng‑Ru Zhou, Peng‑Tao Shi, Ran Zhang, Abdullah Shalmani, Izhar Muhammad, Gang‑Feng Wang, Wen‑Ting Liu and Kun‑Ming Chen
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:3

    The original article was published in Rice 2021 14:100

  37. Rice blast, one of the most destructive epidemic diseases, annually causes severe losses in grain yield worldwide. To manage blast disease, breeding resistant varieties is considered a more economic and enviro...

    Authors: Kuan-Lin Lo, Yi-Nian Chen, Min-Yu Chiang, Mei-Chun Chen, Jerome P. Panibe, Chung-Chun Chiu, Lu-Wei Liu, Liang-Jwu Chen, Chun-Wei Chen, Wen-Hsiung Li and Chang-Sheng Wang
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:2
  38. The rice Waxy (Wx) gene plays a major role in seed amylose synthesis and consequently controls grain amylose content. Wx gene expression is highly regulated at the post-transcriptional level. In particular, the G...

    Authors: Xingdan Liu, Qi Ding, Wenshu Wang, Yanling Pan, Chao Tan, Yingbo Qiu, Ya Chen, Hongjing Li, Yinlong Li, Naizhong Ye, Nian Xu, Xiao Wu, Rongjian Ye, Jianfeng Liu and Chonglie Ma
    Citation: Rice 2022 15:1
  39. Grain size is one of the major determinants of cereal crop yield. As a class of plant polyhydroxysteroids, brassinosteroids (BRs) play essential roles in the regulation of grain size and plant architecture in ...

    Authors: Jiaqi Zhang, Xiuying Gao, Guang Cai, Yuji Wang, Jianbo Li, Huaying Du, Ruqin Wang, Hongsheng Zhang and Ji Huang
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:105
  40. Low-temperature germinability (LTG) is an important agronomic trait that can affect the planting time, planting area, and grain yield of staple crops, such as rice. However, the genetic mechanism of LTG is sti...

    Authors: Zhaoyuan Pan, Bin Tan, Guiyuan Cao, Rongqi Zheng, Meng Liu, Ruizhen Zeng, Shaokui Wang, Haitao Zhu, Heng Ye, Guangmiao Zhao, Wei Cao, Guifu Liu, Guiquan Zhang and Yuliang Zhou
    Citation: Rice 2021 14:103

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