Chonghui Ji

TL;DR: Paddy trials showed that genome-edited SWEET promoters endow rice lines with robust, broad-spectrum resistance to all Xanthomonas bacterial blight strains tested.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new mitochondrial gene, WA352, which originated recently in wild rice, confers the wild abortive male sterility (CMS-WA) because the protein it encodes interacts with the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial protein COX11.

TL;DR: It is reported that a new mitochondrial gene, WA352, which originated recently in wild rice, confers CMS-WA because the protein it encodes interacts with the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial protein COX11, and can be suppressed by two restorer-of-fertility genes, suggesting the existence of different mechanisms to counteract deleterious cytoplasmic factors.

TL;DR: It is shown that the rice gene Xa1, encoding a nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat protein, confers resistance against X. oryzae isolates by recognizing multiple TALEs, but the iTALEs present in many isolates interfere with the otherwise broad-spectrum resistance conferred by Xa 1.

TL;DR: The formation of microspores and their development into mature pollen grains require cooperative interactions between gametophytic and sporophytic cells, with the innermost cell layer, the tapetum, playing the most crucial role.