Article
Development and Rapid Adoption of Submergence-Tolerant (Sub1) Rice Varieties
2012-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Flooding is a frequent hazard in lowland rice environments and is expected to intensify with climate change. Short-term submergence regularly affects over 20 million ha of rice in the tropics. Tolerant varieties like the Indian landrace FR13A can survive submergence for 2 weeks or more, whereas susceptible varieties are severely damaged or killed within a week. The discovery of the tolerance gene SUB1 enabled mark...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6f35669a-5f47-5f03-ae92-6c204ba0c64b
- DOI
- 10.1016/b978-0-12-394276-0.00006-8
