Academic Research

Academician Tuan-hua David Ho and his team investigated the physiological and molecular response mechanisms of rice under submergence and osmotic stress. By comparing the submergence-sensitive cultivar IR64 with the submergence-tolerant cultivar IR64-Sub1, they showed that IR64-Sub1 exhibited greater stress tolerance, including lower malondialdehyde accumulation, higher survival rates, and distinct regulation of ERF-VII genes under combined submergence and osmotic stress conditions. These findings provide important insights into improving flooding tolerance in rice and may help reduce the impact of extreme climate conditions on Taiwan’s rice industry in the future. The study was published in BMC Plant Biology (Chi et al., 2023).

Article source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12870-023-04380-y