Volume 32, No 11, Nov 2022

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

Volume 32 Issue 11, November 2022: 959-960

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Producing hybrid seeds like conventional rice

Hong Yu^1,2 , Jiayang Li^1,2,*

¹State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, The Innovative Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Correspondence: Jiayang Li(jyli@genetics.ac.cn)

Production of hybrid rice seed is laborious and costly, because the restorer lines providing pollen need to be removed before seed harvesting to avoid contamination of undesired inbred seeds. In a recent Cell Research paper, Li et al. report that a spontaneous mutation in ARGONAUTE7 could lead to thermo-sensitive female sterility, which enables fully mechanized hybrid seed production in rice.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-022-00733-8

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