Volume 27, No 10, Oct 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 27 Issue 10, October 2017: 1189-1190

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

New path towards a better rice architecture

Reynante L Ordonio¹ and Makoto Matsuoka²

¹Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Division, Philippine Rice Research Institute, Maligaya, Science City of Munoz 3119, The Philippines
2Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464 8601 Correspondence: Makoto Matsuoka,(makoto@nuagr1.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

New plant type (NPT) or ideal plant architecture (IPA) is an attractive way of increasing yield potential by promoting high resource use efficiency combined with better lodging resistance. In a recent paper in Cell Research, Wang et al. describe how a QTL they identified could bring about the desired NPT architecture by elucidating the role of its encoded gene in controlling the stability of IPA1/OsSPL14, a previously reported NPT protein, in the context of ubiquitination.

10.1038/cr.2017.115

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