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Rice domestication by reducing shattering.

Science (New York, N.Y.) ·Vol. 311 ·No. 5769 ·2006-03-31 ·Pages 1936-9

Li C, Zhou A, Sang T

Abstract

Crop domestication frequently began with the selection of plants that did not naturally shed ripe fruits or seeds. The reduction in grain shattering that led to cereal domestication involved genetic loci of large effect. The molecular basis of this key domestication transition, however, remains unknown. Here we show that human selection of an amino acid substitution in the predicted DNA binding domain encoded by a gene of previously unknown function was primarily responsible for the reduction of grain shattering in rice domestication. The substitution undermined the gene function necessary for the normal development of an abscission layer that controls the separation of a grain from the pedicel.

MeSH Terms

Alleles Amino Acid Sequence Amino Acid Substitution Biological Evolution Chromosome Mapping Computational Biology Crops, Agricultural/genetics,growth & development Flowers/growth & development Gene Expression Genes, Plant Genotype Molecular Sequence Data Mutation Oryza/cytology,genetics,growth & development Phenotype Plant Proteins/chemistry,genetics Plants, Genetically Modified Quantitative Trait Loci Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA Transcription Factors/chemistry,genetics Transformation, Genetic

Chemicals

Plant Proteins Transcription Factors

Authors & Affiliations

3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Li Changbao

Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.

Zhou Ailing

Sang Tao

Article Info

Journal

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Abbr.

Science

ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1123604

Published

2006-03-31

Epub

2006-00-09

Pages

1936-9

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

0404511

Subset

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PMID: 16741100

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