Genome-wide associated study identifies NAC42-activated nitrate transporter conferring high nitrogen use efficiency in rice

oleh: Weijie Tang, Jian Ye, Xiangmei Yao, Pingzhi Zhao, Wei Xuan, Yunlu Tian, Yuanyan Zhang, Shuang Xu, Hongzhou An, Gaoming Chen, Jun Yu, Wei Wu, Yuwei Ge, Xiaolan Liu, Jin Li, Hanzhi Zhang, Yaqin Zhao, Bing Yang, Xingzhou Jiang, Chao Peng, Cong Zhou, William Terzaghi, Chunming Wang, Jianmin Wan

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-11-01

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Improving crop nitrogen use efficiency can facilitate sustainable production, however, the genetic mechanisms have not been fully revealed. Here, the authors discover the NAC42-NPF6.1 signaling cascade mainly derives fromĀ indica and wild rice and demonstrate the potential of using the allele for cultivar improvement.