Yunming Long

TL;DR: It is shown in rice (Oryza sativa) with Boro II cytoplasm that an abnormal mitochondrial open reading frame, orf79, is cotranscribed with a duplicated atp6 (B-atp6) gene and encodes a cytotoxic peptide and plays an additional role in promoting the editing of atp 6 mRNAs, independent of its cleavage function.

TL;DR: It is shown that a locus for indica-japonica hybrid male sterility, Sa, comprises two adjacent genes, SaM and SaF, encoding a small ubiquitin-like modifier E3 ligase-like protein and an F-box protein, respectively.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, in an ehd1 mutant background, Hd3a was silenced, but RFT1 was expressed (although at lower levels than in plants with a functional Ehd1) under short- day (SD) and long-day (LD) conditions, and analyses of sequence variation and geographic distribution suggested that functional R FT1 alleles were selected during rice adaptation to high-latitude regions.

TL;DR: It is shown that silencing of SaF or SaM by RNA interference restored male fertility in indica-japonica hybrids with heterozygous Sa, and it is demonstrated that SaF and SaM are required for hybrid male sterility, but are not essential for pollen development.