| 1 | A new method for evaluating the drought tolerance of upland rice cultivars显示文摘Worldwide, approximately 27 million ha of rice are grown in upland rather than paddy fields, and is subject to drought stress. To counter this stress, it is desirable to breed new rice cultivars with improved drought tolerance. For breeding purposes, especially for breeding upland rice, it is desirable to develop a simple and accurate method to evaluate rice drought tolerance. We describe a new method that can be used to evaluate efficiently the drought tolerance degree(DTD) of upland rice cultivars, and call it the DTD method.DTD is defined as the mean of the ratios of green leaf length to total leaf length of the top three leaves in every rice seedling after drought treatment, and thus takes values from zero to one. To test whether the DTD method works effectively to evaluate drought tolerance of upland rice cultivars, we determined the DTD values of 13 upland rice cultivars showing varying degrees of drought tolerance in drought-tolerance trials. The idrl-1 mutant, which displayed the strongest drought tolerance of the 13 cultivars as identified by drought-tolerance trials under severe drought stress, had the highest DTD value and297-28, displaying the weakest drought tolerance, had the lowest DTD value. Further analyses of water potential, survival rate, panicles per plant, spikelets per panicle, seed setting rate, yield per plant, and contents of proline, chlorophyll, and malondialdehyde(MDA) indicated that DTD values are in general correlated with the values of these traits,making this new method useful for assessing the drought tolerance of upland rice cultivars.These results show that the DTD method is a simple, direct and relatively accurate evaluation method for drought-tolerance breeding of upland rice. | Xiaofeng Zu Yanke Lu Qianqian Wang Peifeng Chu Wei Miao Huaqi Wang Honggui La | 2017 | The Crop Journal2017，5，6： | 5 |
| 2 | Scoring the collective effects of SNPs: association of minor alleles with complex traits in model organisms显示文摘It has long been assumed that most parts of a genome and most genetic variations or SNPs are non-functional with regard to reproductive fitness.However,the collective effects of SNPs have yet to be examined by experimental science.We here developed a novel approach to examine the relationship between traits and the total amount of SNPs in panels of genetic reference populations.We identified the minor alleles(MAs)in each panel and the MA content(MAC)that each inbred strain carried for a set of SNPs with genotypes determined in these panels.MAC was nearly linearly linked to quantitative variations in numerous traits in model organisms,including life span,tumor susceptibility,learning and memory,sensitivity to alcohol and anti-psychotic drugs,and two correlated traits poor reproductive fitness and strong immunity.These results suggest that the collective effects of SNPs are functional and do affect reproductive fitness. | YUAN DeJian ZHU ZuoBin TAN XiaoHua LIANG Jie ZENG Chen ZHANG JieGen CHEN Jun MA Long DOGAN Ayca BROCKMANN Gudrun GOLDMANN Oliver MEDINA Eva RICE Amanda D. MOYER Richard W. MAN Xian YI Ke LI YanKe LU Qing HUANG YiMin HUANG Shi | 2014 | Science China(Life Sciences)2014，57，9： | 2 |
| 4 | Multiple forms of vitamin B_(6) regulate salt tolerance by balancing ROS and abscisic acid levels in maize root显示文摘Salt stress causes osmotic stress,ion toxicity and oxidative stress,inducing the accumulation of abscisic acid(ABA)and excessive reactive oxygen species(ROS)production,which further damage cell structure and inhibit the development of roots in plants.Previous study showed that vitamin B_(6)(VB_(6))plays a role in plant responses to salt stress,however,the regulatory relationship between ROS,VB_(6) and ABA under salt stress remains unclear yet in plants.In our study,we found that salt stress-induced ABA accumulation requires ROS production,in addition,salt stress also promoted VB_(6)(including pyridoxamine(PM),pyridoxal(PL),pyridoxine(PN),and pyridoxal 5′-phosphate(PLP))accumulation,which involved in ROS scavenging and ABA biosynthesis.Furthermore,VB_(6)-deficient maize mutant small kernel2(smk2)heterozygous is more susceptible to salt stress,and which failed to scavenge excessive ROS effectively or induce ABA accumulation in maize root under salt stress,interestingly,which can be restored by exogenous PN and PLP,respec-tively.According to these results,we proposed that PN and PLP play an essential role in balancing ROS and ABA levels under salt stress,respectively,it laid a foundation for VB_(6) to be better applied in crop salt resistance than ABA. | Chongchong Lu Yuan Tian Xuanxuan Hou Xin Hou Zichang Jia Min Li Mingxia Hao Yanke Jiang Qingbin Wang Qiong Pu Ziyi Yin Yang Li Baoyou Liu Xiaojing Kang Guangyi Zhang Xinhua Ding Yinggao Liu | 2022 | Stress Biology2022，2，1： | 1 |
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