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Reply to “Japonica rice carried to, not from, Southeast Asia”

Nature Genetics volume 40, pages 1265–1266 (2008)Cite this article

Izawa, Shomura, Konishi, Ebana and Yano reply:

In our study1, we cloned a quantitative trait locus (QTL) termed qSW5, which controls seed width in rice. Deletion of the qSW5 gene region resulted in greater yield, allowing us to infer its artificial selection in rice domestication. We therefore used genome-wide and neutral RFLP data to classify various rice cultivars and mapped the functional nucleotide polymorphism (FNP) of qSW5 and two other FNPs of domestication-related genes Wx (a taste-related gene) and qSH1 (a seed-shattering gene)2.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Genomics for Agricultural Innovation project (grant number QTL5001) from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Priority Areas “Genome Barrier in Plant Reproduction” to T.I.

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  1. Plant Genome Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan

    Takeshi Izawa & Saeko Konishi

  2. Institute of the Society for Techno-Innovation of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, Tsukuba, 305-0854, Japan

    Ayahiko Shomura

  3. QTL Genomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, 305-8602, Japan

    Kaworu Ebana & Masahiro Yano

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Izawa, T., Shomura, A., Konishi, S. et al. Reply to “Japonica rice carried to, not from, Southeast Asia”. Nat Genet 40, 1265–1266 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1108-1265

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