Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Genome-wide associated study identifies NAC42-activated nitrate transporter conferring high nitrogen use efficiency in rice

  • Weijie Tang,
  • Jian Ye,
  • Xiangmei Yao,
  • Pingzhi Zhao,
  • Wei Xuan,
  • Yunlu Tian,
  • Yuanyan Zhang,
  • Shuang Xu,
  • Hongzhou An,
  • Gaoming Chen,
  • Jun Yu,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Yuwei Ge,
  • Xiaolan Liu,
  • Jin Li,
  • Hanzhi Zhang,
  • Yaqin Zhao,
  • Bing Yang,
  • Xingzhou Jiang,
  • Chao Peng,
  • Cong Zhou,
  • William Terzaghi,
  • Chunming Wang,
  • Jianmin Wan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13187-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Improving crop nitrogen use efficiency can facilitate sustainable production, however, the genetic mechanisms have not been fully revealed. Here, the authors discover the NAC42-NPF6.1 signaling cascade mainly derives from indica and wild rice and demonstrate the potential of using the allele for cultivar improvement.