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[Current status and strategies for improvement of rice grain chalkiness].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Jun 2009
Zhou Li-Jun, Jiang Ling, Zhai Hu-Qu, Wan Jian-Min
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This paper reviews the current status of correlation between rice chalkiness and other rice quality characters, formative mechanism, and classical and molecular genetics for rice chalkiness. The formation of rice chalkiness proves to be a complicated physiological process and tightly relate to "source-sink" of rice, dynamics of grain filing, biosynthesis and accumulation of starch in endosperm. Rice chalkiness is...
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