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Breeding high-yield superior quality hybrid super rice by rational design

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posted on 2023-05-18, 19:18 authored by Qian, Q, Guo, L, Steven SmithSteven Smith, Li, J
The challenge of meeting the increasing demand for worldwide rice production has driven a sustained quest for advances in rice breeding for yield. Two breakthroughs that led to quantum leaps in productivity last century were the introduction of semidwarf varieties and of hybrid rice. Subsequent gains in yield have been incremental. The next major leap in rice breeding is now upon us through the application of rational design to create defined ideotypes. The exploitation of wide-cross compatibility and intersubspecific heterosis, combined with rapid genome sequencing and the molecular identification of genes for major yield and quality traits have now unlocked the potential for rational design.

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Publication title

National Science Review

Pagination

283-294

ISSN

2095-5138

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

Oxford, UK

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The Author(s) 2016.

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Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences

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