Open AccessUnderstanding the Molecular Bases of Agronomic Trait Improvement in Rice
Author(s) -
Bing Wang,
Jiayang Li
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.19.00343
Subject(s) - arable land , biology , oryza sativa , staple food , trait , agronomy , yield (engineering) , agriculture , crop , population , world population , microbiology and biotechnology , agroforestry , ecology , developing country , demography , sociology , computer science , programming language , metallurgy , gene , biochemistry , materials science
Increasing crop yield is a major challenge for agricultural scientists because of an ever-increasing world population and a finite amount of arable land. Rice ( Oryza sativa ) is a staple food feeding over half of the world’s population. During the last two decades, tremendous progress has been
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