Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Variation of a major facilitator superfamily gene contributes to differential cadmium accumulation between rice subspecies

  • Huili Yan,
  • Wenxiu Xu,
  • Jianyin Xie,
  • Yiwei Gao,
  • Lulu Wu,
  • Liang Sun,
  • Lu Feng,
  • Xu Chen,
  • Tian Zhang,
  • Changhua Dai,
  • Ting Li,
  • Xiuni Lin,
  • Zhanying Zhang,
  • Xueqiang Wang,
  • Fengmei Li,
  • Xiaoyang Zhu,
  • Jinjie Li,
  • Zichao Li,
  • Caiyan Chen,
  • Mi Ma,
  • Hongliang Zhang,
  • Zhenyan He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10544-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Grain of indica rice accumulates more toxic cadmium (Cd) than japonica, but the underlying genetic basis is unclear. Here, the authors show that natural variation of OsCd1 contributes to divergence in grain Cd accumulation and transferring japonica allele to indica rice leads to reduced Cd accumulation.