Harnessing salt tolerance and C4-like traits from the halophyte wild species Oryza coarctata into cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Manas R. Prusty, Sherry L. Henchanova, Jolly Chatterjee, Joie Ramos, Janice Sapin, Young-Chan Cho, Charng-Pei Li, Sung-Ryul Kim, Kshirod K. Jena · 2026
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Description
Manas Prusty and co-authors moved salt-taming traits from a wild rice into farm rice in this 2026 study. The wild species grows in coastal seawater and photosynthesizes in an efficient style farm rice lacks. Crossing the two is hard, since their genomes differ sharply.
The team made 36,000 crosses and rescued the fragile embryos in the lab. Marker tests across all twelve chromosomes confirmed true hybrids and traced the wild pieces in later generations. The new lines survived salt levels twice what standard hardy checks could bear. They held their sodium balance and showed leaf anatomy closer to the efficient style. The lines offer breeders a path to rice for salty coasts.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Manas R. Prusty, Sherry L. Henchanova, Jolly Chatterjee, Joie Ramos, Janice Sapin, Young-Chan Cho, Charng-Pei Li, Sung-Ryul Kim, Kshirod K. Jena |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |