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Recent advances in brassinosteroid signaling in rice

  

  1. (1 College of Agriculture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China;2 Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021, China)
  • Online:2014-09-25 Published:2014-10-11

Abstract: Brassinosetroids (BR) is a class of ubiquitous plant hormones. They regulate diverse aspects of plant growth and development and resistance to environmental stresses. Since BR control several aspects of yield\|related traits in rice, such as plant height, grain weight, leaf angle and tillering number, much attention has been paid to identify the molecular components of BR biosynthesis and signaling, and to increase yield by genetic engineering BR biosynthesis or signaling. Chinese scientists have made significant progress in characterizing several BR signaling mutants in rice. In this review, recent advances in BR signaling in rice have been summarized, and future studies and applications were discussed.

Key words: brassinosteroid, brassinolide, signal transduction, rice