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Molecular mechanisms and future improvement of submergence tolerance in rice by Kuroha, Takeshi, Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Rice is one of most important crops in the world and is also the most advanced crop for breeding among cereal crops. Generally, rice is grown in lowland and…”
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The role of QTLs in the breeding of high-yielding rice by Miura, Kotaro, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Matsuoka, Makoto

“…Food shortages have once again become a serious problem, not only because of world population growth but also as a result of escalating demand for crops as a…”
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OsSPL14 promotes panicle branching and higher grain productivity in rice by Ashikari, Motoyuki, Miura, Kotaro, Ikeda, Mayuko, Matsubara, Atsushi, Song, Xian-Jun, Ito, Midori, Asano, Kenji, Matsuoka, Makoto, Kitano, Hidemi

“…Identification of alleles that improve crop production and lead to higher-yielding varieties are needed for food security. Here we show that the quantitative…”
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Ethylene-gibberellin signaling underlies adaptation of rice to periodic flooding by 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

“…Most plants do poorly when flooded. Certain rice varieties, known as deepwater rice, survive periodic flooding and consequent oxygen deficiency by activating…”
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ethylene response factors SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2 allow rice to adapt to deep water by Hattori, Yoko, Nagai, Keisuke, Furukawa, Shizuka, Song, Xian-Jun, Kawano, Ritsuko, Sakakibara, Hitoshi, Wu, Jianzhong, Matsumoto, Takashi, Yoshimura, Atsushi, Kitano, Hidemi, Matsuoka, Makoto, Mori, Hitoshi, Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Living organisms must acquire new biological functions to adapt to changing and hostile environments. Deepwater rice has evolved and adapted to flooding by…”
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Rare allele of a previously unidentified histone H4 acetyltransferase enhances grain weight, yield, and plant biomass in rice by Song, Xian Jun, Kuroha, Takeshi, Ayano, Madoka, Furuta, Tomoyuki, Nagai, Keisuke, Komeda, Norio, Segami, Shuhei, Miura, Kotaro, Ogawa, Daisuke, Kamura, Takumi, Suzuki, Takamasa, Higashiyama, Tetsuya, Yamasaki, Masanori, Mori, Hitoshi, Inukai, Yoshiaki, Wu, Jianzhong, Kitano, Hidemi, Sakakibara, Hitoshi, Jacobsen, Steven E., Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Grain weight is an important crop yield component; however, its underlying regulatory mechanisms are largely unknown. Here, we identify a grain-weight…”
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Noninvasive imaging of hollow structures and gas movement revealed the gas partial‐pressure‐gradient‐driven long‐distance gas movement in the aerenchyma along the leaf blade to submerged organs in rice by Yin, Yong‐Gen, Mori, Yoshinao, Suzui, Nobuo, Kurita, Keisuke, Yamaguchi, Mitsutaka, Miyoshi, Yuta, Nagao, Yuto, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Nagai, Keisuke, Kawachi, Naoki

“…Summary Rice (Oryza sativa) plants have porous or hollow organs consisting of aerenchyma, which is presumed to function as a low‐resistance diffusion pathway…”
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Can the Wild Perennial, Rhizomatous Rice Species Oryza longistaminata be a Candidate for De Novo Domestication? by Tong, Shuai, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Nagai, Keisuke, Pedersen, Ole

“…As climate change intensifies, the development of resilient rice that can tolerate abiotic stresses is urgently needed. In nature, many wild plants have…”
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Molecular mechanism of internode elongation in rice by Nagai, Keisuke, Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Rice plants that form ventilated tissues, such as aerenchyma in the leaves, stems, and roots, allow for growth in waterlogged conditions (paddy fields), but…”
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Identification, isolation and pyramiding of quantitative trait loci for rice breeding by Ashikari, Motoyuki, Matsuoka, Makoto

“…Many agronomically important traits are governed by several genes known as quantitative trait loci (QTLs). The identification of important, QTL-controlled…”
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Rice leaf hydrophobicity and gas films are conferred by a wax synthesis gene (LGF1) and contribute to flood tolerance by Kurokawa, Yusuke, Nagai, Keisuke, Huan, Phung Danh, Shimazaki, Kousuke, Qu, Huangqi, Mori, Yoshinao, Toda, Yosuke, Kuroha, Takeshi, Hayashi, Nagao, Aiga, Saori, Itoh, Jun‐ichi, Yoshimura, Atsushi, Sasaki‐Sekimoto, Yuko, Ohta, Hiroyuki, Shimojima, Mie, Malik, Al Imran, Pedersen, Ole, Colmer, Timothy David, Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Floods impede gas (O2 and CO2) exchange between plants and the environment. A mechanism to enhance plant gas exchange under water comprises gas films on…”
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Designing rice panicle architecture via developmental regulatory genes by Agata, Ayumi, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Sato, Yutaka, Kitano, Hidemi, Hobo, Tokunori

“…Rice panicle architecture displays remarkable diversity in branch number, branch length, and grain arrangement; however, much remains unknown about how such…”
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Gibberellin Receptor and Its Role in Gibberellin Signaling in Plants by Ueguchi-Tanaka, M, Nakajima, M, Motoyuki, A, Matsuoka, M

“…Gibberellins (GAs) are a large family of tetracyclic, diterpenoid plant hormones that induce a wide range of plant growth responses. It has been postulated…”
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Gibberellin biosynthesis and signal transduction is essential for internode elongation in deepwater rice by AYANO, MADOKA, KANI, TAKAHIRO, KOJIMA, MIKIKO, SAKAKIBARA, HITOSHI, KITAOKA, TAKUYA, KUROHA, TAKESHI, ANGELES‐SHIM, ROSALYN B., KITANO, HIDEMI, NAGAI, KEISUKE, ASHIKARI, MOTOYUKI

“…Under flooded conditions, the leaves and internodes of deepwater rice can elongate above the water surface to capture oxygen and prevent drowning. Our previous…”
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Adapting Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Rice F2 Populations by Furuta, Tomoyuki, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Jena, Kshirod K, Doi, Kazuyuki, Reuscher, Stefan

“…Rapid and cost-effective genotyping of large mapping populations can be achieved by sequencing a reduced representation of the genome of every individual in a…”
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Identification of An7 as a positive awn regulator from two wild rice species by Mizutani, Miya, Murase, Riri, Aoki, Shin-ichiro, Sato, Yutaka, Yamagata, Yoshiyuki, Yasui, Hideshi, Yoshimura, Atsushi, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Bessho-Uehara, Kanako

“…The awn is a bristle-like appendage that protrudes from the seed tip and plays a critical role in preventing feed damage and spreading habitats in many grass…”
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Morphological Alteration Caused by Brassinosteroid Insensitivity Increases the Biomass and Grain Production of Rice by Morinaka, Yoichi, Sakamoto, Tomoaki, Inukai, Yoshiaki, Agetsuma, Masakazu, Kitano, Hidemi, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Matsuoka, Makoto

“…The rice (Oryza sativa) dwarf mutant d61 phenotype is caused by loss of function of a rice BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1 ortholog, OsBRI1. We have identified…”
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Artificial selection for a green revolution gene during japonica rice domestication by Asano, Kenji, Yamasaki, Masanori, Takuno, Shohei, Miura, Kotaro, Katagiri, Satoshi, Ito, Tomoko, Doi, Kazuyuki, Wu, Jianzhong, Ebana, Kaworu, Matsumoto, Takashi, Innan, Hideki, Kitano, Hidemi, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Matsuoka, Makoto

“…The semidwarf phenotype has been extensively selected during modern crop breeding as an agronomically important trait. Introduction of the semidwarf gene,…”
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Time-Course Transcriptomics Analysis Reveals Key Responses of Submerged Deepwater Rice to Flooding by Minami, Anzu, Yano, Kenji, Gamuyao, Rico, Nagai, Keisuke, Kuroha, Takeshi, Ayano, Madoka, Nakamori, Masanari, Koike, Masaya, Kondo, Yuma, Niimi, Yoko, Kuwata, Keiko, Suzuki, Takamasa, Higashiyama, Tetsuya, Takebayashi, Yumiko, Kojima, Mikiko, Sakakibara, Hitoshi, Toyoda, Atsushi, Fujiyama, Asao, Kurata, Nori, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Reuscher, Stefan

“…Water submergence is an environmental factor that limits plant growth and survival. Deepwater rice (Oryza sativa) adapts to submergence by rapidly elongating…”
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Cytokinin Oxidase Regulates Rice Grain Production by Ashikari, Motoyuki, Sakakibara, Hitoshi, Lin, Shaoyang, Yamamoto, Toshio, Takashi, Tomonori, Nishimura, Asuka, Angeles, Enrique R, Qian, Qian, Kitano, Hidemi, Matsuoka, Makoto

“…Most agriculturally important traits are regulated by genes known as quantitative trait loci (QTLs) derived from natural allelic variations. We here show that…”
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