Background Improving the overall production of rice with high quality is a major target of
breeders. Mining potential yield-related loci have been geared towards developing efficient …

Improving grain yield potential in rice is an important step toward addressing global food
security challenges. The meta-QTL analysis offers stable and robust QTLs irrespective of the …

In human genetics, genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a commonly used method for
discovering genes and genetic variants contributing to human traits, usually through …

Rice yield per plant has a complex genetic architecture, which is mainly determined by its
three component traits: the number of grains per panicle (GPP), kilo-grain weight (KGW) …

It is hypothesized that the genome-wide genic markers may increase the prediction accuracy
of genomic selection for quantitative traits. To test this hypothesis, a set of candidate gene …

Rice, which supports more than half the population worldwide, is one of the most important
food crops. Thus, potential yield-related quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) and QTN-by …

Though several genes governing various major traits have been reported in rice, their
superior haplotype combinations for developing ideal variety remains elusive. In this study …

Grain size plays a significant role in rice, starting from affecting yield to consumer
preference, which is the driving force for deep investigation and improvement of grain size …

Background High-yielding cultivars of rice (Oryza sativa L.) have been developed in Japan
from crosses between overseas indica and domestic japonica cultivars. Recently, next …

Development and use of genome-wide informative simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers
and novel integrated genomic strategies are vital to drive genomics-assisted breeding …