Control of a key transition from prostrate to erect growth in rice domestication
Control of a key transition from prostrate to erect growth in rice domestication
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控制水稻驯化过程中从平伏生长到直立生长的关键转变
DOI:
10.1038/ng.197
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发表时间:
2008-11-01
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影响因子:
30.8
通讯作者:
Sun, Chuanqing
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作者:
Tan, Lubin;Li, Xianran;Sun, Chuanqing
The transition from the prostrate growth of ancestral wild rice (O. rufipogonGriff.) to the erect growth ofOryza sativacultivars was one of the most critical events in rice domestication. This evolutionary step importantly improved plant architecture and increased grain yield. Here we find that prostrate growth of wild rice from Yuanjiang County in China is controlled by a semi-dominant gene,PROG1(PROSTRATE GROWTH 1), on chromosome 7 that encodes a single Cys2-His2zinc-finger protein.prog1variants identified inO. sativadisrupt theprog1function and inactivateprog1expression, leading to erect growth, greater grain number and higher grain yield in cultivated rice. Sequence comparison shows that 182 varieties of cultivated rice, including 87indicaand 95japonicacultivars from 17 countries, carry identical mutations in theprog1coding region that may have become fixed during rice domestication.