Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Dissecting a heterotic gene through GradedPool-Seq mapping informs a rice-improvement strategy

  • Changsheng Wang,
  • Shican Tang,
  • Qilin Zhan,
  • Qingqing Hou,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Qiang Zhao,
  • Qi Feng,
  • Congcong Zhou,
  • Danfeng Lyu,
  • Lingling Cui,
  • Yan Li,
  • Jiashun Miao,
  • Chuanrang Zhu,
  • Yiqi Lu,
  • Yongchun Wang,
  • Ziqun Wang,
  • Jingjie Zhu,
  • Yingying Shangguan,
  • Junyi Gong,
  • Shihua Yang,
  • Wuqi Wang,
  • Jianfu Zhang,
  • Huaan Xie,
  • Xuehui Huang,
  • Bin Han

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11017-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Developing hybrid rice cultivars requires time consuming random crossing. Here, the authors develop a new next generation sequencing-based quantitative trait locus mapping method to dissect heterotic gene OsMADS1 and demonstrate the feasibility of pyramiding two genes to achieve large heterotic effect.