Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

A common wild rice-derived BOC1 allele reduces callus browning in indica rice transformation

  • Kun Zhang,
  • Jingjing Su,
  • Min Xu,
  • Zhihui Zhou,
  • Xiaoyang Zhu,
  • Xin Ma,
  • Jingjing Hou,
  • Lubin Tan,
  • Zuofeng Zhu,
  • Hongwei Cai,
  • Fengxia Liu,
  • Hongying Sun,
  • Ping Gu,
  • Chen Li,
  • Yuntao Liang,
  • Wensheng Zhao,
  • Chuanqing Sun,
  • Yongcai Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14265-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Callus browning heavily affects indica rice transformation regeneration. Here, the authors show transposon insertion in the promoter of BOC1 gene, encoding a SIMILAR TO RADICAL-INDUCED CELL DEATH ONE protein, can upregulate its expression and decrease callus browning in cultivated rice by releasing oxidative stress.