Heat stress (HS) caused by high-temperature weather seriously threatens international food security. Indeed, as an important food crop in the world, the yield and quality of rice are frequently affected by HS. Therefore, clarifying the molecular mech...
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important staple crop that feeds more than one half of the world’s population and is the model system for monocotyledonous plants. However, rice is very sensitive to salinity and is the most salt sensitive cereal crop wit...
Flooding is an important strategy for weed control in paddy rice fields. However, terrestrial weeds had evolved mechanisms of tolerance to flooding, resulting in new ‘snorkeling’ ecotypes. The aim of this review is to discuss the mechanis...
Soil salinization caused by the accumulation of sodium can decrease rice yield and quality. Identification of rice salt tolerance genes and their molecular mechanisms could help breeders genetically improve salt tolerance. We studied QTL mapping of p...
Salt stress is one of the major constraints to rice cultivation worldwide. Thus, the development of salt-tolerant rice cultivars becomes a hotspot of current rice breeding. Achieving this goal depends in part on understanding how rice responds to sal...
Rice is globally a major food crop and its production has progressively been affected by various types of abiotic stresses especially drought, flooding, salinity, heat and cold in most of the cultivable rice ecosystems. The incidence, intensity and d...
Rice is one of the most economically important staple food crops in the world. Soil salinization and drought seriously restrict sustainable rice production. Drought aggravates the degree of soil salinization, and, at the same time, increased soil sal...
Iron (Fe) toxicity is a major issue adversely affecting rice production worldwide. Unfortunately, the physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying Fe toxicity tolerance in rice remain relatively unknown. In this study, we conducted a genome–...
Salinity stress is one of the most problematic constraints to significantly reduce rice productivity. The Saltol QTL (quantitative trait locus) has been known as one among many principal genes/QTLs responsible for salinity tolerance in rice. However,...
Lowland rice is an important cereal crop that plays a key role in the food security and the economy of Thailand. Terminal water stress (TWS) in rainfed lowland areas poses threats to rice productivity due to stress occurrence at terminal crop stages...
This study was conducted to develop the salt tolerance of rice by exogenous application of magnesium sulfate supplement (MgSO4). The salinization was carried out on 7-day-old rice seedlings including BC15 (salinity tolerant) and DT84DB (salinity susc...
Rice is highly sensitive to salinity stress during the seedling establishment phase. Salt stress is widely occurring in cultivated areas and severely affects seed germination ability and seedling establishment, which may result in a complete crop fai...
Rice is susceptible to cold stress at the seedling stage, which can delay growth and decrease yield. We evaluated 187 rice accessions for cold tolerance at the seedling stage and developed genotypic assays for three markers. All japonica (20/20) and...
Rice is a globally important food crop, and phosphorus is an essential nutrient element for rice growth. In many of China’s arable lands, there is a deficiency in available phosphorus content. Therefore, screening and breeding rice germplasm re...
Accession of red rice does not have the traits of early maturity, drought tolerance and high yield. Mutation is needed to obtain the desired genetic resources. Gamma-ray irradiation is the right method because it was proved capable of producing hundr...
Drought represents a prevalent abiotic stress in terrestrial plants, frequently impairing crop growth and yield. In this paper, we characterized the functional role of OsNAC25, a member of the NAC transcription factor family, in drought tolerance. Os...
Salt stress is one of the most severe adverse environments in rice production; increasing salinization is seriously endangering rice production around the world. In this study, a rice backcross inbred line (BIL) population derived from the cross of 9...
Rice (Oryza sativa) exhibits tremendous aluminum (Al)-tolerance. The C2H2-transcription factor (TF) ART1 critically regulates rice Al tolerance via modulation of specific gene expression. However, little is known about the posttranscriptional ART1 re...
Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) is the most abundant lipid on earth and constitutes about 50% of the polar lipids in the thylakoid membrane of higher plants. MGDG synthase (MGD) is the key enzyme responsible for MGDG synthesis in plants. However,...
Salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) could be an alternative to alleviate salinity problems in rice plants grown in the coastal areas. This study was conducted to isolate and characterize salt-tolerant PGPR and observe their effe...
Saline stress severely affects rice (Oryza sativa L.) growth and development and reduces crop yield. Therefore, developing salt-tolerant and high-yielding rice using quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and linkage markers is a priority for molecular breed...
Roots anchor plants and take up water and nutrients from the soil; therefore, root development strongly affects plant growth and productivity. Moreover, increasing evidence indicates that root development is deeply involved in plant tolerance to abio...
Osmotin promoter binding protein 1 (OPBP1), an AP2/ERF transcription factor of tobacco, has been demonstrated to function in disease resistance and salt tolerance in tobacco. To increase stress tolerant capability of rice, we generated rice plants wi...
Heavy metal toxicity generally refers to the negative impact on the environment, humans, and other living organisms caused by exposure to heavy metals (HMs). Heavy metal poisoning is the accumulation of HMs in the soft tissues of organisms in a toxic...
The acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) is an essential enzyme involved in branched amino acids. Several herbicides wither weeds via inhibiting AHAS activity, and the AHAS mutants show tolerance to these herbicides. However, most AHAS mutations are resi...
Rice is the primary source of food for more than half of the global population. Accordingly, improving the cold tolerance of rice is vital for ensuring food security. In this study, a new cold tolerance-related QTL in rice (qPSR7-2) was detected on c...
Heat stress has emerged as a significant abiotic constraint affecting rice yield and grain quality. In recent years, substantial advancements have been achieved in elucidating molecular regulatory mechanisms and breeding applications pertinent to ric...
Soil salinity severely threatens plant growth and crop performance. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a plant signal molecule, has been implicated in the regulation of plant responses to salinity stress. However, it is unclear how the transcriptional network r...
Soil salinity is a major constraint that affects plant growth and development. Rice is a staple food for more than half of the human population but is extremely sensitive to salinity. Among the several known mechanisms, the ability of the plant to ex...
Salt stress is the most widespread soil problem in rice-growing countries, and it causes significant reductions in rice production worldwide. Identifying QTLs for sodicity tolerance at the reproductive stage is crucial to enhance the grain yield in s...
Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses that abate the yield of several crop species including rice. Several studies were conducted to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for traits associated with salinity tolerance, mostly at the seedling...
Chilling stress seriously limits grain yield and quality worldwide. However, the genes and the underlying mechanisms that respond to chilling stress remain elusive. This study identified ABF1, a cold-induced transcription factor of the bZIP family. D...
The submergence tolerance of rice is a key factor in promoting rice direct seeding technology and resisting flood disasters. Dongxiang wild rice (DXWR) has strong submergence tolerance, but its genetic basis is still unclear. Here, we report quantita...
Salt stress is a major constraint to seed germination and early seedling growth in rice, affecting crop establishment and productivity. To understand the mechanisms underlying salt tolerance, we investigated two rice varieties with contrasting respon...
Worldwide, cadmium (Cd) contamination severely threatens rice production and public health. Jasmonic acid (JA) is recognized to be involved in rice Cd stress responses, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we show that JA posi...
Salt stress is one of the major environmental stresses that imposes constraints to plant growth and production. Abscisic acid (ABA) has been well-proven to function as a central integrator in plant under salt stress, and trehalose (Tre) has emerged a...
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of cold tolerance in a collection of 127 rice accessions, including 57 Korean landraces at the seedling stage. Cold tolerance of rice seedlings was evaluated in a growth chamber under controlled con...
Ectopic expression of the MYB transcription factor of AmROSEA1 from Antirrhinum majus has been reported to change anthocyanin and other metabolites in several species. In this study, we found that overexpression of AmRosea1 significantly improved the...
Salinity is an important environmental factor influencing crop growth and yield. Malate dehydrogenase (MDH) catalyses the reversible conversion of oxaloacetate (OAA) to malate. While many MDHs have been identified in various plants, the biochemical f...
Saline-alkali tolerant rice, as the first selected grain crop for improving coastal tidal land and saline-alkali land, has great potential for comprehensive utilization. In this study, an elite three-line restorer in breeding, R192, was taken as the...
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food for over half the global population and a model organism for monocot plant research. However, it is susceptible to salinity, with most cultivated varieties showing reduced growth at salt levels above 3 dS/m. De...
Unfavorable environmental conditions and climate change impose stress on plants, causing yield losses worldwide. The Indonesian pigmented rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars Cempo Ireng Pendek (black rice) and Merah Kalimantan Selatan (red rice) are bec...
Salinity is one of the major constraints causing soil problems and is considered a limitation to increased rice production in rice-growing countries. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) experiment was conducted to understand the genetic basis o...
Rice, a cold-sensitive crop, is a staple food for more than 50% of the world’s population. Low temperature severely compromises the growth of rice and challenges China’s food safety. Dongxiang wild rice (DXWR) is the most northerly common...
Low temperature stress severely hampers rice productivity, and hence elaborating chilling-mediated physiochemical alterations and unravelling cold tolerance pathways will facilitate cold resilient rice breeding. Various cold tolerant Near-isogenic li...
Rice salt tolerance at the germination stage directly affects the germination rate and seedling establishment of rice directly seeded in saline soils, which in turn affects yield. In this study, we determined the relative germination potential (RGP)...
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was used to investigate the genetic basis of chilling tolerance in a collection of 117 rice accessions, including 26 Korean landraces and 29 weedy rices, at the reproductive stage. To assess chilling tolerance a...
Salt stress is a major constraint to rice acreage and production worldwide. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the natural genetic variation available in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rice mini-core collection (URMC) for e...
Natural variations conferring salt tolerance (ST) are of great value for breeding salt-tolerant rice varieties. The major ST genes, including SKC1, RST1, OsWRKY53 and STG5, have been identified to contain or be associated with a specific single nucle...
Plant cells accumulate osmotic substances (e.g., sugar) to protect cell components and maintain osmotic balance under drought stress conditions. Previous studies found that pOsHAK1:OsFLN2 promotes sugar metabolism and improves the drought tolerance o...
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