Removing Harmful Pericarp Character of Weedy Rice as the First Step of Domestication towards Direct-Seeding Rice Using CRISPR/Cas9-Targeted Mutagenesis

Removing Harmful Pericarp Character of Weedy Rice as the First Step of Domestication towards Direct-Seeding Rice Using CRISPR/Cas9-Targeted Mutagenesis

With the scarcity of fresh water resources and the increase in labor prices, rice cultivation is changing from transplanting to direct seeding. Weedy rice is a malignant weed with strong drought tolerance in seed germination in direct-seeding rice fields. As the same species of cultivated rice (<...

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Main Authors: Mengyao Kong, Xiaotong He, Zhendong Yin, Xianshu Chen, Yujie Zhang, Zhihua Shi, Xiaoling Song, Sheng Qiang, Weimin Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-04-01
Series:Agronomy
Subjects:
weedy rice
germplasm resources
direct-seeding rice
CRISPR/Cas9
pericarp color
<i>Rc</i> gene
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/4/1130

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