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Chinese Agriculture Researchers Discover Key Gene, GY3, to Boost Rice Production
China's Huazhong Agricultural University brings innovative solution to boost rice production, leading to combat food insecurity.
China’s Huazhong Agricultural University brings innovative solution to boost rice production, leading to combat food insecurity.
Beijing: A team of Chinese researchers from Huazhong Agricultural University brings another innovative solution to boost rice production, leading to combat food insecurity.
According to some details, the research team led by Mr.Xing Yongzhong of Huazhong Agricultural University the university has found a key rice yield-increasing gene, which provides an important gene resource for the high-yield breeding of rice.
The researcher claim that the GY3 gene can significantly increase the number of grains per panicle and increase the yield of rice varieties by about 10 percent by regulating the synthesis of cytokinin.
“About 98 percent of japonica rice and 21 percent of indica rice carry the GY3 gene”, said Xing Yongzhong.
Most of the currently popularized indica rice varieties do not have the GY3 gene, which indicates that GY3 has not been utilized by breeders in indica rice breeding, the researcher added.
The findings of the study indcate that GY3 can be used as an important gene for the high-yield breeding of indica rice, and it is expected to greatly improve the yield of indica rice.
The research was recently published online in the journal Nature Genetics.
Chinese people consume the most amount of rice on earth, and their scientists have been striving to find ways to increase rice production and ensure food security.
By: M.A
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