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SUBMITTER: Li J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3311617 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Juan J Chu Huangwei H Zhang Yonghong Y Mou Tongmin T Wu Changyin C Zhang Qifa Q Xu Jian J
PloS one 20120323 3
Heading date and grain weight are two determining agronomic traits of crop yield. To date, molecular factors controlling both heading date and grain weight have not been identified. Here we report the isolation of a hemizygous mutation, heading and grain weight (hgw), which delays heading and reduces grain weight in rice. Analysis of hgw mutant phenotypes indicate that the hemizygous hgw mutation decreases latitudinal cell number in the lemma and palea, both composing the spikelet hull that is k ...[more]