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Rice, rising

Nature Genetics volume 40, pages 1273–1275 (2008)Cite this article

Two new studies identify PROG1, a gene underlying a quantitative trait locus that regulates rice tiller angle and that has likely been a target for artificial selection during rice domestication. Genetic manipulation of PROG1 has the potential to promote agronomically valuable traits.

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Figure 1: Genes and their proposed functions in controlling rice tiller angle.

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  1. Yonghong Wang and Jiayang Li are in the State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.,

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