Natural variation in SL6 determines fatty acid components and seed longevity in rice
Yifeng Wang, Jiezheng Ying, Jia Li, Xinyong Liu, Qianya Zhou, Shuang Jia, Guanghao Li, Wanning Liu, Zhenghao Tao, Hongzhou Li, Zhiyong Li, Jie Huang, Xiaohong Tong, Xixi Liu, Yu Cheng, Yuxuan Hou, Guangheng Zhang, Yangjun Zhang, Kun Zhou, Xiaoshan Zeng, Jian Zhang · 2026
Read Natural variation in SL6 determines fatty acid components and seed longevity in rice by Yifeng Wang, Jiezheng Ying, Jia Li, Xinyong Liu, Qianya Zhou, Shuang Jia, Guanghao Li, Wanning Liu, Zhenghao Tao, Hongzhou Li, Zhiyong Li, Jie Huang, Xiaohong Tong, Xixi Liu, Yu Cheng, Yuxuan Hou, Guangheng Zhang, Yangjun Zhang, Kun Zhou, Xiaoshan Zeng, Jian Zhang (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13544218.txt.
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Yifeng Wang and co-authors clone a gene that sets how long rice seeds stay alive in storage in this 2026 study. Seed longevity guards food security world-wide. Its genetic basis was barely documented before this work. The gene makes an enzyme that trims fatty acids in the seed. One acid it builds helps seeds resist oxidation over time. A hormone signal from drying switches the gene on through a partner factor.
An old elite allele from a prized variety boosts the trait. The gene's role holds across several species, the team found. Longer-lived seed eases storage losses for farmers and banks. Breeding can now target this locus directly. The study blends gene cloning with field variety data. It is a crop genetics paper in a top plant journal style.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yifeng Wang, Jiezheng Ying, Jia Li, Xinyong Liu, Qianya Zhou, Shuang Jia, Guanghao Li, Wanning Liu, Zhenghao Tao, Hongzhou Li, Zhiyong Li, Jie Huang, Xiaohong Tong, Xixi Liu, Yu Cheng, Yuxuan Hou, Guangheng Zhang, Yangjun Zhang, Kun Zhou, Xiaoshan Zeng, Jian Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |