High throughput methods are described for identifying combinations of mutations that can be used to improve a phenotypic feature in an organism. Large populations of organisms (e.g., plants) containing different combinations of mutations can be assessed using the methods.

The present disclosure provides genetically modified plants, plant cells and plant tissues that show reduced lignin content as compared to a control plant which was not genetically modified. In addition, the disclosure provides methods of regulating lignin content in a plant. The disclosure also provides methods of producing bioproducts using the genetically modified plants of the instant disclosure.

The herbicide-tolerant rice cultivar designated CL272 and its hybrids and derivatives are disclosed. CL272 is a novel, herbicide-resistant, early maturing, semidwarf, medium-grain rice cultivar with improved yield and improved disease resistance. This invention also pertains to methods for producing a hybrid or new variety by crossing the rice variety CL272 with another rice line, one or more times. This invention allows for single-gene converted plants of CL272. This invention also provides regenerable cells for use in tissue culture of rice plant CL272. The present invention provides a method for treating rice.

The herbicide-tolerant rice cultivar designated CL153 and its hybrids and derivatives are disclosed. CL153 is a novel, herbicide-resistant, high yielding, early maturing, semidwarf, long-grain rice cultivar with excellent grain yield, good grain quality, and produces plans with very good resistance to blast disease. This invention also pertains to methods for producing a hybrid or new variety by crossing the rice variety CL153 with another rice line, one or more times. This invention allows for single-gene converted plants of CL153. This invention also provides regenerable cells for use in tissue culture of rice plant CL153. The present invention provides a method for controlling weeds in the vicinity of rice.

Rice is described that is tolerant/resistant to AHAS/ALS inhibitors because of a plurality of mutations that act synergistically in providing resistance/tolerance to the herbicide. Tolerance/resistance is due to presence of combined mutations in the rice leading to amino acid substitutions (A205V and G654E) in the AHAS/ALS enzyme. Use of the rice for weed control and methods of producing tolerant/resistant rice are also disclosed.

A rice cultivar designated RU1401105 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar RU1401105, to the plants of rice cultivar RU1401105, to plant parts office cultivar RU1401105, and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing rice cultivar RU1401105 with itself or with another rice variety. This invention also relates to rice cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from rice cultivar RU1401105, to methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from rice cultivar RU1401105, and to the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention farther relates to hybrid rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing rice cultivar RU1401105 with another rice cultivar.

A method of producing an agricultural product for improving immunity, the agriculture product being rice, includes: (1) soaking seeds of the agricultural product in a solution containing a magnetic material and a -glucan; (2) before planting the seeds, applying a bottom fertilizer to a paddy field for the agricultural product, the bottom fertilizer including an organic fertilizer, the magnetic material, an oyster shell powder, the (3-glucan and an organic zinc; and (3) at tillering stage, applying a topdressing to the paddy filed, the topdressing including the -glucan and the organic zinc.

The invention relates to a plant genetic engineering field, and more particularly to a method for creating directed gene mutated non-transgenic plants. The method including performing a transgenic method onto directed gene mutated plants by introducing exogenous nucleic acid molecules; wherein the transgenic method includes introducing constructs into the directed gene mutated plants, each of the constructs contains a first nucleic acid molecule and a second nucleic acid molecule, wherein the first nucleic acid molecule serves as a gene editing element, and the second nucleic acid molecule serves as a lethal or stop development element, and can be used in a plant gene editing system such as CRISPR/CAS9. It can actively and automatically eliminate plant transgenic fragments, leaving enough time for gene editing elements to perform directed gene editing before removing transgenic fragments, providing a simple and effective method for gene editing without transgenic plants.

The present disclosure provides a method for treating rice. The method comprises the steps of: providing a domestic rice crop plant and at least one ACCase-inhibiting aryloxyphenoxypropanoate herbicide selected from the group consisting of quizalofop or an ester thereof, haloxyfop, fluazifop or an ester thereof, clodinafop, clodinafop-propargyl, diclofop, and diclofop-methyl; applying an effective amount (measured in g AI/Ha) of the at least one aryloxyphenoxypropanoate herbicide to the domestic rice crop plant, post-emergence; thereby creating a treated rice plant; and growing the resulting treated rice plant.

A method for breeding a small-grain male-sterile rice line and a simple method for producing a hybrid rice seed are provided. The method for breeding the small-grain sterile rice line includes the following steps: crossing a female parent C815S with a male parent Qigui B to obtain a hybrid seed F1; planting the F1 and crossing the F1 with a female parent H155S to obtain a crossed hybrid seed F1; planting the crossed hybrid seed F1 to obtain a F2 generation; planting an individual plant with ideal plant type, strong tillering, plant dwarf and small grain type from the F2 generation and a F3 generation, and then directional breeding more than two generations to obtain a seed with more than F5 generation as the small-grain sterile rice line.