Drought stress has often caused significant decreases in crop production which could be associated with global warming. Enhancing drought tolerance without a grain yield penalty has been a great challenge in crop improvement. Here, we report the Arabidopsis thaliana galactinol synthase 2 gene (At...
Enhancing rice yield in upland rice systems through genetic improvement remains a major challenge in the tropics. This review aims to provide the trends on upland rice cultivation over the last 30 years and recent distribution of upland rice in the tropics, and to report progress in studies on ge...
Saito, Kazuki
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Asai, Hidetoshi
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Zhao, Dule
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Laborte, Alice G.
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Grenier, Cécile
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[Progress in varietal improvement for increasing upland rice productivity in the tropics]
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Progress in varietal improvement for increasing upland rice productivity in the tropics
Rice spikelets become sterile when exposed to high temperatures during flowering. Recent experimental studies have shown that transpirational cooling and flowering time (within the day) are important factors determining sterility. Extrapolation of the results from these experimental studies to ot...
Oort, Pepijn A.J. van
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Saito, Kazuki
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Zwart, Sander J.
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Shrestha, S.
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[A simple model for simulating heat induced sterility in rice as a function of flowering time and transpirational cooling]
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A simple model for simulating heat induced sterility in rice as a function of flowering time and transpirational cooling