Yong Zhou

TL;DR: It is proposed that the panicle erectness trait resulted from a natural random loss-of-function mutation for the qPE9-1 gene and has subsequently been the target of artificial selection during japonica rice breeding.

TL;DR: It is found that regular organ shape results from spatiotemporal averaging of the cellular variability in wild-type sepals, which is disrupted in the less-variable cells of ftsh4 mutants, and abnormal, increased accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in ftsH4 mutants disrupts organ size consistency.

TL;DR: A comparative phylogenetic and molecular evolutionary analysis of the tubby-like protein gene family in Arabidopsis, rice, and poplar indicated that functional diversification of the duplicated TLP genes was a major feature of long-term evolution and co-evolved during the evolution of proteins containing both domains.

TL;DR: A novel QTL, Slender grain on chromosome 7 (SLG7), that is responsible for grain shape is identified using backcross introgression lines derived from 9311 and Azucena, and its functions are conserved across monocots and dicots and that the SLG7 allele could be applied in breeding to modify rice grain appearance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis for RSV resistance using 226 F2 clonal lines at the seedling stage derived from a cross between the susceptible japonica variety Balilla and the resistant indica variety Dular with two evaluation criteria, infection rate (IR) and disease rating index (DRI).