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Blocking of awn development-related gene OsGAD1 coordinately boosts yield and quality of Kam Sweet Rice.
Physiologia plantarum - 1 Jan 2000
Luo Jun, Amin Bakht, Wu Bilong, Wu Bowen, Huang Weiting, Salmen Saleh H, Fang Zhongming
Abstract excerpt
Kam Sweet Rice is a high-quality local variety of Guizhou province in China, but most varieties have awns on lemma. In this study, we aimed to obtain awnless varieties of Kam Sweet Rice by blocking the awn development-related gene OsGAD1 using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. We determined that natural variations of the OsGAD1 triggered different lengths of awns of Kam Sweet Rice. We found that the awning rate of the...
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