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    Rice LVPA4 gene improves rice yield and quality

    • Last Update: 2022-11-15
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    Recently, the Rice Molecular Design Technology and Application Innovation Team of the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences cooperated with relevant partners to reveal the regulation mechanism of rice yield genes to increase rice yield and quality through the coordination of source, library and flow traits from a new perspective, and provide theoretical support
    for high-yield and high-quality rice breeding.
    The results were published in
    Plant Physiology.
     
    The process of increasing rice yield is essentially a process of
    continuously establishing the relationship between genetic improvement and equilibrium between source, reservoir and flow traits.
    The source mainly refers to the rice sword leaf and the inverted two leaves, the library mainly refers to the number of grains and grain weight per panicle, and the flow mainly refers to the size and number of panicle neck vascular bundles connecting the source and the library, and the source, library and flow traits are significantly positively correlated
    with the yield.
    Cloning important genes that control rice flow traits and revealing the regulatory mechanism of rice flow traits has important guiding significance
    for rice ultra-high yield breeding.
    However, clones of phloem area genes controlling large vascular bundles in rice ear neck have rarely been reported
    .
     
    The researchers cloned a gene LVPA4, which controls phloem area traits in the large vascular bundle of rice ear neck, which is
    related to the narrow-leaf gene NAL1.
    Compared with its control plants, the mutants of this gene significantly increased the phloem area of the panicle neck macrovascular bundle (about 12.
    7%), the total grain number per panicle (about 17.
    2%), the number of solid grains per panicle (about 22.
    5%), the sword leaf area, leaf area index and the content of non-structural carbohydrates in the stem sheath at the spike stage, resulting in a synergistic increase
    of source, library and flow traits 。 The experiments showed that the rice yield of the mutant increased by 7.
    6%~9.
    6% in the community test, and the products of photosynthesis in the source, including non-structural carbohydrates stored in the stalk in the early stage, were fully transported to the grain through flow traits, and the grain, especially the grain base of the ear, had good grain fullness, thereby improving the quality
    of rice.
    This study shows that LVPA4 single gene improves rice yield and rice quality through the coordination of source, library and flow traits, and has application value
    in rice high-yield and high-quality breeding.
     
    The research was supported
    by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in Hainan.
     
    Links to papers: https://doi.
    org/10.
    1093/plphys/kiac461
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