Deletion in a gene associated with grain size increased yields during rice domestication

By A. Shomura, T. Izawa, K. Ebana, T. Ebitani, H. Kanegae, Saeko Konishi, Masahiro Yano. Nature Genetics, 2008

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Subfields: Genetics, Plant Science

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• SmartGrain: High-Throughput Phenotyping Software for Measuring Seed Shape through Image Analysis1[C][W][OA] (2012, methodology): “However, qSW5 , with a large effect on W (0.5 mm, 15%), explained only 38.5% of the phenotype variance in a cv Nipponbare 3 Kasalath F2 population (Shomura et al., 2008), suggesting that the bulk of phenotypic variations are caused by several minor QTLs.”
• Genome-wide association study of flowering time and grain yield traits in a worldwide collection of rice germplasm (2011, background): “This is because the japonica Nipponbare reference genome harbors a large deletion in this gen”
• Development of genome-wide SNP assays for rice (2010, background): “…2010, Hyten et al. 2007, Nordborg and Weigel 2008, Zhao et al. 2010), understand the history of domestication (Kovach et al. 2009, Li et al. 2010, Shomura et al. 2008, Sweeney et al. 2007, Takano-Kai et al. 2009), and to explore the ancestry of specific alleles, regions of chromosomes or…”
• SEED DISPERSAL AND CROP DOMESTICATION: SHATTERING, GERMINATION AND SEASONALITY IN EVOLUTION UNDER CULTIVATION (2009, background): “Haplotype analysis including one of these, qSH1, suggests that the non-shattering phenotype came after other mutations associated with an increase in grain size and the waxy phenotype (Shomura et al., 2008), supporting the idea that the mutation arose in the ‘domesticated’ population of rice.”
• Molecular and environmental factors determining grain quality in rice (2012, background): “2009) and GW5 (qSW5) (Shomura et al. 2008; Weng et al. 2008) for grain width, which are localized on chromosome 3, 2, and 5, respectively.”