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.

Correspondence to: Jiayang Li¹ e-mail: jyli@genetics.ac.cn

Abstract

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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