Aim: Global food security has become a serious issue, nitrogen fertilizer use increased agricultural productivity globally, but at significant environmental cost. The present study was aimed to identification of rice genotypes from the existing germplasm or development cultivars that can make best N in low soils is essential for sustainability agriculture
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Diverse RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) have been determined to play a crucial role in post-transcriptional regulation of RNA metabolism during plant response to abiotic stresses. In this report we characterize a rice (Oryza sativa L.) protein, named OsCBP20, which is similar to subunits of a nuclear cap-binding protein 20 (CBP20), it contains a canonical RNA recognition motif (RRM). We compared th...

In the present study, four species of Bipolaris viz. B. salkadehensis, B. coicis, B. ellisii, and B. maydis and two species of Curvularia viz. C. tuberculata and C. comoriensis were isolated and identified from different poaceousspecies. Bipolaris coicis on Coix lacryma-jobi, B. ellisii on Zea mays, C. tuberculata on Oryza sativa, Sorghum bicolor, Cyperus rotundus and C. comoriensis on Oryza sa...

The African species of rice (Oryza glaberrima) was cultivated long before Europeans arrived in the continent. At present, O. glaberrima is being replaced by the introduced Asian species of rice, Oryza sativa. Some West African farmers, including the Jola of southern Senegal, still grow African rice for use in ritual contexts. The two species of rice have recently been crossed, producing a promi...

Plant breeders have long recognized the existence of useful genetic variation in the wild ancestors of our domesticated crop species. In cultivated rice (Oryza sativa), crosses between high-yielding elite cultivars and low-yielding wild accessions often give rise to superior offspring, with wild alleles conferring increased performance in the context of the elite cultivar genetic background. Be...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a primary global food cereal. However, when compared to wheat, rice has poor food processing qualities. Dough that is made from rice flour has low viscoelasticity because rice seed lacks storage proteins that are comparable to gluten protein from wheat. Thus, current research efforts aim to improve rice flour processing qualities through the transgenic expression of vi...

For the first time, the phytopathogenicity of extracellular vesicles of Acholeplasma laidlawii PG8 (a ubiquitous mycoplasma that is one of the five common species of cell culture contaminants and is a causative agent for phytomycoplasmoses) in Oryza sativa L. plants was studied. Data on the ability of extracellular vesicles of Acholeplasma laidlawii PG8 to penetrate from the nutrient medium int...