Ethylene-gibberellin signaling underlies adaptation of rice to periodic flooding

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 361; no. 6398; pp. 181 - 186
• Main Authors: Kuroha, Takeshi, Nagai, Keisuke, Gamuyao, Rico, Wang, Diane R., Furuta, Tomoyuki, Nakamori, Masanari, Kitaoka, Takuya, Adachi, Keita, Minami, Anzu, Mori, Yoshinao, Mashiguchi, Kiyoshi, Seto, Yoshiya, Yamaguchi, Shinjiro, Kojima, Mikiko, Sakakibara, Hitoshi, Wu, Jianzhong, Ebana, Kaworu, Mitsuda, Nobutaka, Ohme-Takagi, Masaru, Yanagisawa, Shuichi, Yamasaki, Masanori, Yokoyama, Ryusuke, Nishitani, Kazuhiko, Mochizuki, Toshihiro, Tamiya, Gen, McCouch, Susan R., Ashikari, Motoyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 13.07.2018
• Subjects: Adaptation; Biosynthesis; Cultivation; Elongation; Ethylene; Flooding; Floods; Floodwater; Genetic diversity; Gibberellins; Grain cultivation; Green revolution; Haplotypes; Hormones; Monsoons; Oryza; Phenotypes; Plant hormones; Protein biosynthesis; Proteins; Rice; Signaling; Submergence; Transcription factors; Bangladesh

Deepwater rice varieties grow taller when flooded, in a growth response driven by the plant hormones gibberellin and ethylene. This keeps the leaves above the water. Kuroha et al. identified the genes underlying this phenotype, which encode a component of the gibberellin biosynthetic pathway and its...