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Rice (Oryza sativa L.), one of the most vital staple crops globally, suffers severe yield losses due to metabolic dysregulation under salt stress. However, the systemic mechanisms by which non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs...
Azolla spp. are floating ferns used for centuries as biofertilizers to enrich the soil with inorganic nitrogen and improve rice yields. However, the molecular interactions between Azolla and co-cultivated rice...
Salt stress poses a severe threat to global rice productivity, and developing salt-tolerant cultivars represents a critical strategy to address this challenge. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying salt...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi establish symbiotic associations with a wide range of plant species. Root colonization by AM fungi improves the uptake of mineral nutrients in the host plant, mainly phosphoru...
Direct-seeded rice offers multiple advantages, including lower labour costs and a reduced CO2 footprint. However, the risk of flooding during germination and at the early seedling and vegetative stages is high. T...
Tiller angle is a major component of rice plant architecture and affects planting density, photosynthetic efficiency, and ventilation. An extremely narrow or wide tiller angle adversely affects rice yield. Thu...
Hybrid sterility is a common phenomenon in hybrids between the Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) and its relatives with AA genome, which limits the utilization of interspecific heterosis and favorable gene ...
Efficient callus induction is essential for the genetic transformation of rice (Oryza sativa), yet its regulatory mechanisms remain elusive. Previously, through a genome-wide association study (GWAS), we identifi...
Climate-related problems such as drought stress, extreme temperature, erratic rainfall patterns, soil degradation, heatwaves, flooding, water logging, pests and diseases afflict the production and sustainabili...
Grain chalkiness is an undesirable agronomic trait that negatively affects both the yield and quality of rice (Oryza sativa). The molecular mechanisms underlying chalky grain phenotype have remained largely uncle...
The perennial life cycle involves the reiterative development of sexual and asexual organs. Asexual structures such as rhizomes are found in various plant species, fostering extensive growth and competitive ad...
Improving grain quality is second only to enhancing grain yield in breeding hybrid rice. Yet, rice grain quality, especially milling and appearance quality, is facing increasing threats from global warming due...
Plant architecture and grain size are critical traits for rice breeding. Brassinosteroid (BR), a class of plant hormones, regulates these traits by modulating cell elongation, division, and differentiation. Th...
Rice, as the largest consumer of global freshwater resources, faces significant challenges due to increasing drought conditions exacerbated by climate change. In this study, we explore the critical role of FKB...
Empirical breeding efforts targeting cold tolerance and ideal plant architecture have significantly improved yield and facilitated the geographic expansion of japonica rice cultivation. However, the genetic drive...
Lesion mimic mutants (LMMs) form hypersensitive response (HR)-like lesions, a form of programmed cell death (PCD), in the absence of pathogens, that often confer durable and broad-spectrum disease resistance, ...
The demand for rice (Oryza sativa L.) as a staple food continues to grow, but rising temperatures due to climate change pose a significant threat to its production. This study addresses the challenge by employing...
Salt stress impairs plant growth by disrupting osmotic regulation, ion homeostasis, and oxidative stress management. Plants respond by activating defense mechanisms, including the biosynthesis of secondary met...
Grain size is one of the major factors determining rice grain yield. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the control rice grain size remains limited. Trihelix proteins are plant-...
Meiosis plays a pivotal role in plant reproduction, which is also crucial for enhancing genetic diversity. Although the impact of MOF1 on floral organ development and its negative regulation of the key tapetal ge...
Salinity is a significant limiting factor that adversely affects plant growth, distribution and crop yield. Ethylene responsive factors play crucial roles in plant responses to and tolerance of various abiotic...
Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA) stands as a pivotal enzyme involved within the Calvin cycle and glycolytic pathways in bacteria and higher plants, but the specific function of OsFBA in rice is still u...
Genomic prediction is a promising strategy for enhancing crop breeding efficiency. Historical data of breeding and cultivation tests from geographically wide regions presumably contain rich information for tra...
The original article was published in Rice 2025 18:12
Rice (Oryza sativa) is an extremely important global food crop. However, cadmium (Cd) contamination in paddy fields poses a serious threat to human health worldwide. To generate low-Cd or Cd-free rice germplasms,...
A greater proportion of deep roots could ensure water uptake at depth and is considered a key trait for aerobic adaptation. However, the study of genomic regions and molecular markers related to deep rooting i...
The growing market demand for high eating quality (EQ) rice, driven by improved living standards, highlights the need to better understand its complex genetic architecture. Starch pasting properties are critic...
Drought and salt stresses are major challenges to rice production, and a deep understanding of the mechanisms for tolerance could help deal with the challenges. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play crucial role...
Heading date is an important agronomic trait of rice, which directly determines adaptability and yield. Selection for natural variated alleles for heading date genes is an important manifestation of rice domes...
Grain size is vital determinant for grain yield and quality, which specified by its three-dimensional structure of seeds (length, width and thickness). The ZINC FINGER-HOMEODOMAIN (ZHD) proteins play critical ...
Polyploid plants exhibit strong resistance to salt and cadmium (Cd) stress, which can adversely affect their growth, reducing crop quality and yield. Transcriptome analysis, antioxidant enzymatic activities, p...
In rice, internode elongation is a critical aspect of plant development and agricultural productivity. Previous morphological and histochemical studies using [3H]thymidine have visualized the cell division zone (...
The root-associated methanotrophs contribute to N2 fixation and CH4 oxidation in paddy fields under N-limited conditions. However, the impact of nitrogen inputs on N₂ fixation and CH₄ oxidation by methanotrophs i...
Molecular farming for producing biopharmaceuticals in plants is considered an excellent method to replace some of the production methods currently used, and a significant number of recombinant proteins have al...
Wild rice, as the ancestor of cultivated rice, has accumulated a wide range of beneficial traits through prolonged natural selection and evolution. Oryza officinalis, belonging to the CC genome, differs significa...
Chloroplasts are vital for photosynthesis, and their development necessitates proper expression of chloroplast genes. However, the regulatory mechanisms underlying rice chloroplast gene expression have not bee...
High temperature significantly impacts grain appearance quality, yet few studies have focused on identifying new quantitative trait loci (QTLs)/genes related to these traits under heat stress during the flower...
Salinity is a major abiotic stress that adversely affects rice growth and production. However, the detailed regulatory mechanisms of salt stress response in rice remain largely unexplored. In this study, we es...
The Correction to this article has been published in Rice 2025 18:26
Nitrate can directly activate phosphate (Pi) starvation signaling, ultimately promoting plant growth by enhancing phosphorus absorption and utilization and optimizing the balance of nitrogen and phosphorus nut...
Direct-seeded rice has gained increasing popularity due to its advantage of lower labor costs. Flooding/hypoxia is an important abiotic stress with severe negative impacts on the germination and emergence of d...
The jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) proteins, known as inhibitors in the jasmonic acid (JA) pathway, have been reported to play a protective role against abiotic stress in plants. Nevertheless, the specific role of...
Salt stress limits plant growth and agricultural productivity and plants have evolved suitable mechanisms to adapt to salinity environments. It is important to characterize genes involved in plant salt toleran...
Jasmonic acid (JA) signaling plays a crucial role in rice defense against the striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis, a notorious pest causing significant yield losses. This review explores the current understand...
In Japan, high-yielding indica rice cultivars such as ‘Habataki’, ‘Takanari’, and ‘Hokuriku 193’ have been bred, and many genes related to the high-yield traits have been isolated from these and other indica cult...
The rise of direct-seeded rice cultivation as a suitable alternative to transplanted puddled rice depends on developing genotypes with high seedling emergence under deep sown conditions. Two rice genotypes (IR...
Panicle elongation length (PEL), which determines panicle exsertion, is an important outcrossing-related trait. Mining genes controlling PEL in rice (Oryza sativa L.) has great practical significance in breeding ...
Rice grain size influences both grain yield and quality, making it a significant target for rice genetic improvement. In recent years, numerous genes related to grain size with differential effects have been c...
Enhancing nitrogen (N) fixation in rice plants can reduce N fertilizer application and contribute to sustainable rice production, particularly under low-N conditions. However, detailed microbial and metabolic ...
Rice is highly sensitive to low temperatures, making cold stress a significant factor limiting its growth, especially during the bud bursting stage. To address this, an RIL population derived from a cross betw...
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