Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Natural variations at the Stay-Green gene promoter control lifespan and yield in rice cultivars

  • Dongjin Shin,
  • Sichul Lee,
  • Tae-Heon Kim,
  • Jong-Hee Lee,
  • Joonheum Park,
  • Jinwon Lee,
  • Ji Yoon Lee,
  • Lae-Hyeon Cho,
  • Jae Young Choi,
  • Wonhee Lee,
  • Ji-Hwan Park,
  • Dae-Woo Lee,
  • Hisashi Ito,
  • Dae Heon Kim,
  • Ayumi Tanaka,
  • Jun-Hyeon Cho,
  • You-Chun Song,
  • Daehee Hwang,
  • Michael D. Purugganan,
  • Jong-Seong Jeon,
  • Gynheung An,
  • Hong Gil Nam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16573-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Breeding crops with delayed senescence could plausibly increase grain yield. Here the authors show that variation at the rice SGR locus contributes to differences in senescence between indica and japonica subspecies and show that introgression can increase yield in an elite indica rice variety.