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Long-culm mutations with dominant genes are induced by mPing transposon in rice.
Hereditas - 1 Dec 2010
Tomita Motonori, Tanisaka Takatoshi
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Development of semidwarf rice cultivars contributed to the epoch of high yielding crops called the 'Green Revolution'. However, over-reliance on semidwarf rice also has intrinsic limitations to supply food for an ever expanding world population. As a solution to the food supply problem, we propose the development of 'tall dwarf' rice cultivars that are characterized by increased biomass with long culms or large...
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