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New Approaches Combined with Environmental Control for Enhancing Heat-Tolerant Rice Breeding in Japan

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Reducing the occurrence of heat-related damages, such as rice chalkiness and spikelet sterility, is the major goal in global rice production under climate change. In Japan, multiple heat-tolerant cultivars have been developed to reduce the occurrence of chalky rice using conventional breeding, whereas at present no cultivars have been developed as heat-tolerant cultivars for spikelet sterility. Numerous studies have investigated the cause(s) of each phenomenon mostly at tissue level, while the exact mechanism(s) behind each phenomenon at cell level is still not well understood. Considering the predicted increase in heat risk, development of superior heat-tolerant cultivars is strongly desired as a countermeasure. Heat tolerance of multiple lines/cultivars has been evaluated under fluctuating environmental conditions; however, field evaluation is demanding and complicated because of the low reproducibility of heat conditions in the field. To address these issues, robust high-throughput screening methods are required. Recently, several attempts to overcome the heat-related damages have been made by using environmental control. In this chapter, recent progress focused on these attempts and future prospects have been described.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Drs. Hiroshi Nakano, Makoto Hakata, and Yuto Hatakeyama for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H02533 and 16H04870.

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Wada, H. (2019). New Approaches Combined with Environmental Control for Enhancing Heat-Tolerant Rice Breeding in Japan. In: Iizumi, T., Hirata, R., Matsuda, R. (eds) Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9235-1_3

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