Weijun Ye

TL;DR: Li and Xudong Zhu as mentioned in this paper reported cloning of the Grain Length on Chromosome 7 (GL7) locus in rice and identified a copy number variant that increases grain length and improves grain quality.

TL;DR: The quantitative trait loci (QTLs) qLSCHL4, japonica NAL1 allele from Nipponbare has a pleiotropic function, which effectively increased leaf chlorophyll content, enlarged flag leaf size, and enhanced the yield of indica rice cultivar.

TL;DR: A pair-wise correlation analysis was conducted on length, width and length-width ratio of the flag leaf, and yield per plant in the core recombinant inbred lines of Liang-You-Pei-Jiu (LYP9) developed in Hainan and Hangzhou, and a positive correlation was found between flag leaf width andield per plant.

TL;DR: Cl cloning and characterization of Leaf Tip Senescence 1 in rice and results suggest that deficiency in the NAD salvage pathway can trigger premature leafsenescence due to transcriptional activation of senescence-related genes.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the QTL qFCC7L may be useful for breeding the rice varieties with higher photosynthetic rate and grain yield, and there were sequence variations and expression differences in the predicted candidate gene between the two parents.