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Grain shape in rice: a Genome-wide association study of the effector genes.
BMC plant biology - 15 Oct 2025
Wang Nansheng, Hassan Muhammad Ahmad, Li Kang, Zhou Kunneng, Gan Quan, Xia Jiafa, Lin Cuixiang, Li Zefu, Ni Dahu, Song Fengshun
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BACKGROUND: Rice is an important grain crop widely cultivated across the world. Its yield and quality have always been the focus of breeders’ attention, significantly impacting world food security. Rice grain shape, primarily characterized by grain length and width, is an important quantitative trait controlled by multiple genes, which not only directly affects rice yield but is also closely related to rice...
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