Scientists discover key genes affecting rice quality

On April 26th, Nature-Communication magazine published the latest research results of the team of Professor Yan Changjie from the Agricultural College of Yangzhou University/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education. They successfully cloned a key site to control the variation of rice protein content. qGPC-10 (OsGluA2), which encodes a gluten precursor in rice storage proteins, and gluten content affects the nutritional quality of rice.

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