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Rice genetics: Control of grain length and quality

Rice breeders have independently selected different overexpression alleles of the same gene to increase grain length and grain quality.

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Figure 1: Overexpression of the GL7/GW7 gene enhances rice grain length and quality.

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Miura, K., Matsuoka, M. Rice genetics: Control of grain length and quality. Nature Plants 1, 15112 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.112

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