Publication Date:
2005-06-25
Description:
Most agriculturally important traits are regulated by genes known as quantitative trait loci (QTLs) derived from natural allelic variations. We here show that a QTL that increases grain productivity in rice, Gn1a, is a gene for cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (OsCKX2), an enzyme that degrades the phytohormone cytokinin. Reduced expression of OsCKX2 causes cytokinin accumulation in inflorescence meristems and increases the number of reproductive organs, resulting in enhanced grain yield. QTL pyramiding to combine loci for grain number and plant height in the same genetic background generated lines exhibiting both beneficial traits. These results provide a strategy for tailormade crop improvement.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ashikari, Motoyuki -- Sakakibara, Hitoshi -- Lin, Shaoyang -- Yamamoto, Toshio -- Takashi, Tomonori -- Nishimura, Asuka -- Angeles, Enrique R -- Qian, Qian -- Kitano, Hidemi -- Matsuoka, Makoto -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jul 29;309(5735):741-5. Epub 2005 Jun 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15976269" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Chromosome Mapping
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Cloning, Molecular
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Crops, Agricultural/genetics/growth & development
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Crosses, Genetic
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Cytokinins/*metabolism
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Flowers/growth & development/metabolism
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Genes, Plant
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Meristem/metabolism
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Oryza/enzymology/*genetics/*growth & development
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Oxidoreductases/*genetics/*metabolism
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Phenotype
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Plants, Genetically Modified
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*Quantitative Trait Loci
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Deletion
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Zeatin/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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