Blocking amino acid transporter OsAAP3 improves grain yield by promoting outgrowth buds and increasing tiller number in rice

• Published in: Plant biotechnology journal Vol. 16; no. 10; pp. 1710 - 1722
• Main Authors: Lu, Kai, Wu, Bowen, Wang, Jie, Zhu, Wei, Nie, Haipeng, Qian, Junjie, Huang, Weiting, Fang, Zhongming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2018; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: amino acid; amino acid transporters; Amino acids; biotechnology; CRISPR; Crop yield; Crop yields; Divergence; Gene expression; genes; Genetic engineering; Genetically modified plants; Glutamine; Glycine; grain yield; nutrient use efficiency; outgrowth bud; panicles; Plants; Promoters (Genetics); Rice; RNA-mediated interference; tiller; tillering; Tillers; Transgenic plants; transporter; grain yield; rice; amino acid; outgrowth bud; tiller; transporter

Summary Amino acid transporters (AATs) play indispensable roles in nutrient allocation during plant development. In this study, we demonstrated that inhibiting expression of the rice amino acid transporter OsAAP3 increased grain yield due to a formation of larger numbers of tillers as a result of in...