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Rational Design of Grain Size to Improve Rice Yield and Quality

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  • 1Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences / Nanjing Branch of Chinese National Center for Rice Improvement, Nanjing 210014, China
    2Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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Peer review under responsibility of China National Rice Research Institute

Received date: 2022-02-24

  Accepted date: 2022-04-13

  Online published: 2022-04-13

Cite this article

Tao Yajun, Wang Jun, Xu Yang, Wang Fangquan, Li Wenqi, Jiang Yanjie, Chen Zhihui, Fan Fangjun, Zhu Jianping, Li Xia, Yang Jie . Rational Design of Grain Size to Improve Rice Yield and Quality[J]. Rice Science, 2023 , 30(1) : 1 -5 . DOI: 10.1016/j.rsci.2022.04.003

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