A Themed Issue in Memory of Academician Zhu Yingguo (1939-2017)

• Other Authors: Zhu, Yuxian (Editor), Li, Shaoqing (Editor), He, Guangcun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Medical ethics & professional conduct; rice; white-core rate; fine-mapping; quantitative RT-PCR; yield; and quality; brown planthopper; gene mapping; near isogenic line; marker-assisted selection; RNA-Seq; n/a; transposon; rice genome; centromere; divergence; Gaussian distribution; genome-wide analysis; gibberellin; GAox; rice (Oryza sativa); effective panicle numbers; tiller numbers; QTL analysis; heterosis-related loci; heading date; Heading date 8 (OsHd8); promoter; natural variation; temperature; solar radiation; sowing date; growth duration; lodging resistance; lodging index; lodging-related traits; indica rice; rice establishment method; orderly mechanical seedling throwing; manual seedling throwing; manual transplanting; hybrid sterility; wide compatibility; leaf-color mutants; chlorophyll; ygl9311; OsChlC1; Mg-chelatase; OsChlI subunit
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Professor Yingguo Zhu, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, devoted his whole life (1939-2017) with tremendous enthusiasm to breeding hybrid rice. He studied and worked at Wuhan University for 58 years and contributed to enriching the diversity of hybrid rice, such as Maxie-type and Honglian-type hybrid rice. We are organizing this Special Issue in his honor to remember his great contributions to hybrid rice, especially Honglian-type male sterility. We invite researchers, including his former students, to submit manuscripts focused on male sterility, rice breeding, and, in particular, hybrid rice breeding, functional genomics research, gene mining and utilization, transposons, and the creation of germplasm. In addition, new technology and cutting-edge research studies are also welcome. We believe that this Special Issue will be helpful to the research on rice and the improvement of hybrid rice breeding in the future.