The yield and quality of rice are directly impacted by floral organ development in rice. Understanding of the floral development mechanism will be useful in genetic improvement of yield and quality. In this study, a rice mutant palea degradation 2 (pd2) in an indica cultivar ‘8PW33’ was obtained after 60Co γ-ray treatment. Analysis of the mutant showed that, compared to the wild type, plant height, total grain number per panicle, and sword leaf width were significantly increased, but the seed setting rate were significantly decreased. The florets of the mutant exhibited degraded palea and sickle-shaped tortuous lemma. Detail examination using scanning electron microscopy revealed that when epidermis of the vane and lemma were normal, epidermis of the palea were arranged tightly, which might result from degraded palea. Genetic analysis supported that this mutation phenotype was controlled by a single recessive gene. Polymorphic analysis of simple sequence repeat markers demonstrated that PD2 gene is located on chromosome 9. With a larger mapping population and more indel markers, we further mapped PD2 gene between 2 indel markers with a physical region of about 82 kb. Within this region, there is a cloned gene REP1 known to control rice palea development. By comparing the DNA sequences of REP1 from pd2 and 8PW33, in combination with the results of phenotypic analysis, we concluded that PD2 is an allele of REP1.
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