The Role of Dwarfing Traits in Historical and Modern Agriculture with a Focus on Rice
The Role of Dwarfing Traits in Historical and Modern Agriculture with a Focus on Rice
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DOI:
10.1101/cshperspect.a034645
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发表时间:
2019-11-01
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Assmann, Sarah M.
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作者:
Ferrero-Serrano, Angel;Cantos, Christian;Assmann, Sarah M.
Semidwarf stature is a valuable agronomic trait in grain crops that reduces lodging and increases harvest index. A fundamental advance during the 1960s Green Revolution was the introduction of semidwarf cultivars of rice and wheat. Essentially, all semidwarf varieties of rice under cultivation today owe their diminished stature to a specific null mutation in the gibberellic acid (GA) biosynthesis gene, SD1. However, it is now well-established that, in addition to GAs, brassinosteroids and strigolactones also control plant height. In this review, we describe the synthesis and signaling pathways of these three hormones as understood in rice and discuss the mutants and transgenics in these pathways that confer semidwarfism and other valuable architectural traits. We propose that such genes offer underexploited opportunities for broadening the genetic basis and germplasm in semidwarf rice breeding.