Muhammad Sabar^1,2,#, Shahzad Amir Naveed^1,3,4,#,*, Shahid Masood Shah⁵, Abdul Rehman Khan⁵, Muhammad Musaddiq Shah⁶, Tahir Awan¹, Muhammad Ramzan Khan³, Zaheer Abbas³, Muhammad Arif^1,7,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.5, pp. 1421-1438, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.025801 - 09 March 2023

Abstract Drought is one of the major abiotic threat to rice production in the context of climate change. Super Basmati is an elite, fine grain basmati rice variety grown in Punjab, Pakistan. Due to drought sensitive in nature, its yield has been facing an alarming situation in production because of gradual decrease in irrigated water for a couple of years. Three reported novel QTLs for drought tolerance were selected for incorporation into Super Basmati by employing marker assisted selection strategy. IR55419-04 with novel QTLs was used as a donor parent. Foreground selection was performed by applying… More >

Hengdong Zhang¹, Min Huang^1,*, YingjuanWei², Jiana Chen¹, Shuanglü Shan¹, Fangbo Cao¹, Guanghui Chen¹, Yingbin Zou¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.4, pp. 403-412, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.07371

Abstract Amylose content and starch granule size in grains influence rice quality, which differs between the early (ES) and late season (LS). The objective of this study was to determine the variation of amylose content and starch granule size between seasons and find the main reasons (e.g., temperature and solar radiation) for the observed variation. Field experiments with six rice varieties (three high and three low amylose content rice) planted in the ES and LS were conducted in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The mean temperatures during the filling stage were higher in ES, however, the daily… More >