Abstract
Ethylene plays a key role in various submergence responses of rice plants, but the mechanism of ethylene action remains largely unclear in rice. Regarding the differences between rice and Arabidopsis in ethylene-regulated processes, rice plants may possess divergent mechanisms in ethylene signaling in addition to the conserved aspects. Forward genetic analysis is essential to fully understand the ethylene signaling mechanism in rice. Here, we describe a method for screening ethylene-response mutants and evaluating ethylene responsiveness in etiolated rice seedlings.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91317306, 31530004) and the 973 projects (2015CB755702).
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Ma, B., Zhang, JS. (2017). Analysis of Growth and Molecular Responses to Ethylene in Etiolated Rice Seedlings. In: Binder, B., Eric Schaller, G. (eds) Ethylene Signaling. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1573. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6854-1_16
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