Rare allele of a previously unidentified histone H4 acetyltransferase enhances grain weight, yield, and plant biomass in rice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-81

  Song, Xian Jun ^a,h   Kuroha, Takeshi ^a   Ayano, Madoka ^a   Furuta, Tomoyuki ^a   Nagai, Keisuke ^a   Komeda, Norio ^a   Segami, Shuhei ^b,c   Miura, Kotaro ^b   Ogawa, Daisuke ^a   Kamura, Takumi ^a   Suzuki, Takamasa ^a   Higashiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Yamasaki, Masanori ^d   Mori, Hitoshi ^a   Inukai, Yoshiaki ^a   Wu, Jianzhong ^e   Kitano, Hidemi ^a   Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^f   Jacobsen, Steven E ^g   Ashikari, Motoyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Grain size; Plant biomass; Rice; Weight; Yield

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE H4 ACETYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CELL COUNT; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAIN FILLING; GRAIN YIELD; HISTONE ACETYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RICE; SPIKELET; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORYZA; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION;

ALLELES; BIOMASS; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS;

EID: 84920431361     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421127112     Document Type: Article

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