Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Resequencing of 1,143 indica rice accessions reveals important genetic variations and different heterosis patterns

  • Qiming Lv,
  • Weiguo Li,
  • Zhizhong Sun,
  • Ning Ouyang,
  • Xin Jing,
  • Qiang He,
  • Jun Wu,
  • Jiakui Zheng,
  • Jiatuan Zheng,
  • Shaoqing Tang,
  • Renshan Zhu,
  • Yan Tian,
  • Meijuan Duan,
  • Yanning Tan,
  • Dong Yu,
  • Xiabing Sheng,
  • Xuewu Sun,
  • Gaofeng Jia,
  • Hongzhen Gao,
  • Qin Zeng,
  • Yufei Li,
  • Li Tang,
  • Qiusheng Xu,
  • Bingran Zhao,
  • Zhiyuan Huang,
  • Hongfeng Lu,
  • Na Li,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Lihuang Zhu,
  • Dong Li,
  • Longping Yuan,
  • Dingyang Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18608-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Hybrid rice cultivars are widely planted around the world. Here, the authors resequence 1,143 indica accessions, focusing on the parents of superior hybrid rice lines in China, and reveal genetic loci that are associated with heterosis via measuring frequency of parental variation difference (FPVD).