Takeshi Ebitani

TL;DR: Cl cloning of a newly identified QTL, qSW5 (QTL for seed width on chromosome 5), involved in the determination of grain width in rice found that a deletion resulted in a significant increase in sink size owing to an increase in cell number in the outer glume of the rice flower.

TL;DR: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) shows the highest tolerance to Al toxicity among small-grain cereal crops, however, the mechanisms and genetics responsible for its high Al tolerance are not yet well understood.

TL;DR: Using chromosome segment substitution lines, an effective quantitative trait loci (QTL) for culm strength was identified, which was designated STRONG CULM2 (SCM2), a gain-of-function mutant of APO1 that does not have the negative effects reported forAPO1 overexpression mutants, such as decreased panicle number and abnormal spikelet morphology.

TL;DR: The results clearly demonstrated that the use of CSSLs enabled to identify a larger number of QTLs than did a BC1F3 population derived from the same cross combination.

TL;DR: Genome analysis of 21 black rice varieties as well as red- and white-grained landraces demonstrated that black rice arose in tropical japonica and its subsequent spread to the indica subspecies can be attributed to the causal alleles of Kala4.