Lei Wang

TL;DR: It is shown that the quantitative trait locus (QTL) Ghd7, isolated from an elite rice hybrid and encoding a CCT domain protein, has major effects on an array of traits in rice, including number of grains per panicle, plant height and heading date.

TL;DR: This dataset provided a versatile resource for plant genomic research, which can be used for associating the transcriptomes to the developmental processes, understanding the regulatory network of these processes, tracing the expression profile of individual genes and identifying reference genes for quantitative expression analyses.

TL;DR: Cloned S5, a major locus for indica–japonica hybrid sterility and wide compatibility, is cloned using a map-based cloning approach and it is shown that S5 encodes an aspartic protease conditioning embryo-sac fertility.

TL;DR: A spatiotemporally coordinated gene network consisting of the MicroRNA 156 (miR156/)miR529/SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE (SPL) and miR172/APETALA2 (AP2) pathways regulates tiller and panicle branching in rice.

TL;DR: This work shows that phasiRNAs generated by the photopheriod-sensetive genic male sterility 1 (Pms1) locus were associated with photoperiod-sensitivemale sterility (PSMS) in rice, a germplasm that started the era of two-line hybrid rice breeding.