Does rice have both the characteristics of early maturing and high yield? Chinese scientists recently gave an affirmative answer. Zhang Jian's team, a researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Rice Biological Breeding at the China Rice Research Institute, successfully cloned a rare allele that simultaneously regulates the maturation period and yield of rice, revealing its molecular mechanism to break the “early maturing-high yield” genetic shackles of crops by balancing flowering and nitrogen utilization efficiency. The relevant research results were published online in the international academic journal “Science” on August 21.

Does rice have both the characteristics of early maturing and high yield? Chinese scientists recently gave an affirmative answer. Zhang Jian's team, a researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Rice Biological Breeding at the China Rice Research Institute, successfully cloned a rare allele that simultaneously regulates the maturation period and yield of rice, revealing its molecular mechanism to break the “early maturing-high yield” genetic shackles of crops by balancing flowering and nitrogen utilization efficiency. The relevant research results were published online in the international academic journal “Science” on August 21.