Keisuke Nagai

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the introduction of three quantitative trait loci from deepwater rice into non-deepwater rice enabled the latter to become deepwater Rice, and will contribute to rice breeding in lowland areas that are frequently flooded during the rainy season.

TL;DR: The QTL-OsglHAT1’s allelic variations to a 1.2-kb region upstream of the gene body is consistent with its function as a positive regulator of the traits, which reveals the first example, to the authors' knowledge, of a QTL for a yield component trait being due to a chromatin modifier that has the potential to improve crop high-yield breeding.

TL;DR: The gibberellin biosynthesis gene, SD1 (SEMIDWARF1), whose loss-of-function allele catapulted the rice Green Revolution, is identified as being responsible for submergence-induced internode elongation.

TL;DR: Research on flood-tolerant rice plants revealed that some rice varieties have evolved to overcome two different flood types, 'flash flood' and 'deepwater flood', using two different mechanisms, and their molecular mechanisms were determined.

TL;DR: Using both physiological and genetic approach, this paper shows that the plant hormone, gibberellin (GA) regulates internode elongation in deepwater rice.