Designing climate-resilient rice with ideal grain quality suited for high-temperature stress

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1737-1748

  Sreenivasulu, Nese ^a   Butardo, Vito M ^a   Misra, Gopal ^a   Cuevas, Rosa Paula ^a   Anacleto, Roslen ^a   Kishor, Polavarpu B Kavi ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chalk; functional genomics; genetics; grain quality; milling and head rice yield; stress tolerance; systems biology; systems genetics

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ALLELE; BREEDING; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD GRAIN; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; BREEDING; CLIMATE; EDIBLE GRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; STARCH;

EID: 84928914747     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru544     Document Type: Review

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