A gene controlling the number of primary rachis branches also controls the vascular bundle formation and hence is responsible to increase the harvest index and grain yield in rice

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 875-893

  Terao, Tomio ^a   Nagata, Kenji ^b   Morino, Kazuko ^a   Hirose, Tatsuro ^a  

^a FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR WESTERN REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKCROSSED INBRED LINES; GENE CONTROLLING; GRAIN YIELD; HARVEST INDEX; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; VASCULAR BUNDLE;

CARBOHYDRATES; HARVESTING;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CROP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENE; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77950022679     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-009-1218-8     Document Type: Article

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