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Engineering the lodging resistance mechanism of post-Green Revolution rice to meet future demands.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences - 1 Jan 2017
Hirano Ko, Ordonio Reynante Lacsamana, Matsuoka Makoto
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Traditional breeding for high-yielding rice has been dependent on the widespread cultivation of gibberellin (GA)-deficient semi-dwarf varieties. Dwarfism lowers the "center of gravity" of the plant body, which increases resistance against lodging and enables plants to support high grain yield. Although this approach was successful in latter half of the 20th century in rice and wheat breeding, this may no longer...
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