Xiangkun Wang

TL;DR: It is found that prostrate growth of wild rice from Yuanjiang County in China is controlled by a semi-dominant gene, PROG1 (PROSTRATE GROWTH 1), on chromosome 7 that encodes a single Cys2-His2 zinc-finger protein.

TL;DR: This research demonstrates that tiller angle is controlled by a major quantitative trait locus, TAC1 (Tiller Angle Control 1), which was mapped to a 35-kb region on chromosome 9 using a large F(2) population from crosses between an indica rice, IR24, which displays a relatively spread-out plant architecture, and an introgressed line, IL55, derived from japonica rice Asominori.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the g237t mutation in SHA1 accounts for the elimination of seed shattering, and that all the domesticated rice cultivars harbor the mutant sha1 gene and therefore have lost the ability to shed their seeds at maturity.

TL;DR: It was found that the genetic diversity of cultivated rice is obviously lower than that of CWR, and it was suggested that during the course of evolution from wild rice to cultivated rice, many alleles were lost through natural and human selection, leading to the lower heterozygosity and genetic diversity.

TL;DR: A doubled haploid population from a cross between two japonica cultivars for seven root traits under three different growing conditions was evaluated, and co-localized and common QTLs will facilitate marker-assisted selection for root traits in rice breeding programs.