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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 171-185.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.18-007

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Cold stress tolerance in rice: physiological changes, molecular mechanism, and future prospects

Citao Liu1,Wei Wang1,Bigang Mao2,Chengcai Chu1()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, Changsha 410125, China
  • Received:2018-01-08 Revised:2018-02-13 Online:2018-03-20 Published:2018-02-26
  • Supported by:
    [Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31501283)]

Abstract:

Low temperature is a major factor affecting rice geographical distribution growth, development, and productivity. Cold stress mediates a series of physiological and metabolite changes, such as alterations in chlorophyll fluorescence, electrolyte leakage, reactive oxygen species (ROS), malondialdehyde (MAD), sucrose, lipid peroxides, proline, and other metabolites, plant endogenous hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellin (GA) also changes. In this review, we summarize the recent research progress on physiological and metabolic changes under low temperature, cold stress related loci and QTL reported by map-based cloning and genome-wide association analysis (GWAS), and some molecular mechanisms in response to low temperature in rice. We also discuss the future prospects on breeding cold tolerance varieties of rice.

Key words: rice, cold stress, cold tolerance related genes, quantitative trait locus (QTL), signal transduction