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Photoperiodic Flowering in Rice

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Rice Biology in the Genomics Era

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 62))

Rice (Oryza saliva L.) is a staple food for humans, especially in Asian countries, and it feeds about half of the world’s population. During domestication and recent breeding programs, flowering-time responses have diversified in rice due to adaptation to cultivation styles in local areas. For instance, early-flowering and photoperiod-insensitive cultivars have been developed for cultivation in northern Japan. In contrast, to prolong vegetative phases and increase yields, late-flowering cultivars with weak photoperiod sensitivity are preferred in some tropical areas, such as Taiwan.

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  1. National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

    Takeshi Izawa

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  1. Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan

    Hiro-Yuki Hirano

  2. Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9, Nishi 9, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan

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  3. Faculty of Agriculture Meijo University, Shiogamaguchi Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya, 468-8502, Japan

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Izawa, T. (2008). Photoperiodic Flowering in Rice. In: Hirano, HY., Sano, Y., Hirai, A., Sasaki, T. (eds) Rice Biology in the Genomics Era. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74250-0_13

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