Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Natural variation in CTB4a enhances rice adaptation to cold habitats

  • Zhanying Zhang,
  • Jinjie Li,
  • Yinghua Pan,
  • Jilong Li,
  • Lei zhou,
  • Hongli Shi,
  • Yawen Zeng,
  • Haifeng Guo,
  • Shuming Yang,
  • Weiwei Zheng,
  • Jianping Yu,
  • Xingming Sun,
  • Gangling Li,
  • Yanglin Ding,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Shiquan Shen,
  • Luyuan Dai,
  • Hongliang Zhang,
  • Shuhua Yang,
  • Yan Guo,
  • Zichao Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14788
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Low temperature is a major factor limiting productivity in rice. Here the authors show that theCTB4a gene confers cold tolerance to japonicavarieties adapted to cold habitats at the booting stage of development, and propose that CTB4a acts via an interaction with the beta subunit of ATP synthase.