Journal
HEREDITY
Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages 396-404Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.90
Keywords
rice; ideotype; genetic modification; plant architecture; variety improvement
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- University Initiative Program
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The structure of the aerial part of a plant, referred to as plant architecture, is subject to strict genetic control, and grain production in cereal crops is governed by an array of agronomic traits. Rice is one of the most important cereal crops and is also a model plant for molecular biological research. Recently, significant progress has been made in isolating and collecting rice mutants that exhibit altered plant architecture. In this article we summarize the recent progress in understanding the basic patterning mechanisms involved in the regulation of tillering (branching) pattern, stem structure and leaf arrangement in rice plants. We discuss the relationship between the genetic modification of plant architecture and the improvement of pivotal agronomic traits in rice.
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