Feng Xiao

TL;DR: The newly identified trait of LPR should provide a high throughput protocol for breeders to select superior rice cultivars as well as for agronomists to precisely manage field crops that have a good balance of source and sink.

TL;DR: Current knowledge and future prospects of this hot research topic are reviewed from a viewpoint of crop physiology, which should be helpful for bridging the knowledge gap between the fundamental plant sciences and the practical technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pot experiment with three treatments of nitrogen (N) topdressing was performed with the japonica rice cultivar viz. Huaidao 5.96, 12.56, and 12.34%, indicating a positive role of rice bracts in N, Mg and Zn remobilization during grain filling.

TL;DR: In this article, a leaf cutting treatment was used to accelerate NSC transport in the rice sheaths, which was accompanied by increased levels of OsSnRK1a mRNA expression, SnRK 1a protein expression, catalytic subunit phosphorylation of SnRk1, and activity.

TL;DR: Storage of non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) in internode parenchyma before anthesis functions as a major carbon source for rice grain filling and N topdressing significantly increased the translocation of internode reserves for all three cultivars.