Volume 22, No 5, May 2012
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)
Volume 22 Issue 5, May 2012: 791-792
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
A non-coding RNA locus mediates environment-conditioned male sterility in rice
Danmeng Zhu1 and Xing Wang Deng1,2
1Peking-Yale Joint Research Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
2Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Correspondence: Xing Wang Deng,(xingwang.deng@yale.edu)
The discovery of Nongken 58S, a natural recessive photoperiod-sensitive male sterile line, served as a starting point for development of two-line hybrid rice in China. While original Nongken 58S in its japonica background is photoperiod-sensitive male sterile, after introgressing of the related locus into indica rice background the same trait become mainly temperature-sensitive male sterile. Although those photoperiod- and temperature-sensitive male sterile lines have been successfully used in two-line hybrid rice seed production, the genetic cause remained a mystery till the two recent publications, with one in Cell Research.
Cell Research (2012) 22:791-792. doi:10.1038/cr.2012.43; published online 20 March 2012
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