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Integrated Lipidomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Lipid-Mediated Regulatory Networks Underlying Male Sterility in Rice

  • Han Cong ,
  • Miao Rong ,
  • Sun Yang ,
  • Jiang Shenlong ,
  • Zhang Peng ,
  • Hu Guocheng ,
  • Yan Qing ,
  • Muneeba Saleem ,
  • Hu Songping ,
  • Zhong Zhengzheng ,
  • Tong Hanhua
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  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311410, China
    2 Southwest Research Center, China National Rice Research Institute, Chongqing 401329, China
    3 Research Center of Plant Functional Genes and Tissue Culture Technology, College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
#These authors contributed equally to this work
TONG Hanhua (htonghz@126.com);
ZHONG Zhengzheng (zhengzi711@163.com);
HU Songping (sp6974@163.com)

Received date: 2026-01-11

  Accepted date: 2026-05-27

  Online published: 2026-06-04

Cite this article

Han Cong , Miao Rong , Sun Yang , Jiang Shenlong , Zhang Peng , Hu Guocheng , Yan Qing , Muneeba Saleem , Hu Songping , Zhong Zhengzheng , Tong Hanhua . Integrated Lipidomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Lipid-Mediated Regulatory Networks Underlying Male Sterility in Rice[J]. Rice Science, 2026 , 33(4) : 425 -430 . DOI: 10.1016/j.rsci.2026.05.007

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