MutMap accelerates breeding of a salt-tolerant rice cultivar

Nat Biotechnol. 2015 May;33(5):445-9. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3188. Epub 2015 Mar 23.

Authors

Hiroki Takagi¹, Muluneh Tamiru¹, Akira Abe¹, Kentaro Yoshida², Aiko Uemura¹, Hiroki Yaegashi¹, Tsutomu Obara¹, Kaori Oikawa¹, Hiroe Utsushi¹, Eiko Kanzaki¹, Chikako Mitsuoka¹, Satoshi Natsume¹, Shunichi Kosugi³, Hiroyuki Kanzaki¹, Hideo Matsumura⁴, Naoya Urasaki⁵, Sophien Kamoun², Ryohei Terauchi¹

Affiliations

¹ Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami, Iwate, Japan.
² The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
³ Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
⁴ Gene Research Center, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano, Japan.
⁵ Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, Itoman, Okinawa, Japan.

PMID: 25798936
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3188

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Agriculture
Breeding*
Humans
Oryza / genetics*
Oryza / growth & development
Oryza / metabolism
Salt Tolerance / genetics*
Sodium Chloride / toxicity

Substances

Sodium Chloride

Grants and funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom