Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Optimization of rice panicle architecture by specifically suppressing ligand–receptor pairs

  • Tao Guo,
  • Zi-Qi Lu,
  • Yehui Xiong,
  • Jun-Xiang Shan,
  • Wang-Wei Ye,
  • Nai-Qian Dong,
  • Yi Kan,
  • Yi-Bing Yang,
  • Huai-Yu Zhao,
  • Hong-Xiao Yu,
  • Shuang-Qin Guo,
  • Jie-Jie Lei,
  • Ben Liao,
  • Jijie Chai,
  • Hong-Xuan Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37326-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Rice panicle architecture dominates grain yield. In this study, the authors demonstrate a method for rationally overcoming the trade-off between yield traits and optimizing rice panicle architecture by specifically manipulating ligand–receptor pairs.