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Nature Reviews Genetics 9, 415 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrg2392

Global challenges: One gene, lots of rice

Patrick Goymer

Understanding the genetic basis of crop yield has been thought to require the identification of many genes of small effect. New research has uncovered an important exception to this rule — a rice locus that has a major effect on several aspects of yield.