The invention refers to the function and application of a disease-resistance gene Xa7 highly resistant to the bacterial blight of rice, belonging to the field of plant genetics. The invention discloses a gene Xa7 with high resistance to rice bacterial blight. The nucleotide sequence of gene Xa7 is shown in SEQ ID No: 1. The invention also provides the usage of the gene Xa7 to improve the resistance of rice to bacterial blight.

A rice cultivar designated FRC-23 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar FRC-23, to the plants of rice FRC-23, and to methods for producing a rice plant by crossing cultivar FRC-23 with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by those methods. This invention also relates to rice cultivars derived from rice cultivar FRC-23, to methods for producing other rice cultivars derived from rice cultivar FRC-23, and to the rice plants derived from the use of those methods.

The inbred rice line designated DG263L is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of inbred rice line designated DG263L, the plants of inbred rice line designated DG263L, plant parts of inbred rice line designated DG263L, and methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing rice DG263L with itself or with another rice variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to rice cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, and the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing DG263L with another rice cultivar.

A rice cultivar designated CLHA02 is disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts derived from rice cultivar CLHA02. Further, it provides methods for producing a rice plant by crossing CLHA02 with itself or another rice variety and methods for combating undesired vegetation by contacting the disclosed rice seeds with an acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS)-inhibiting herbicide. The invention also encompasses any rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into CLHA02 through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding CLHA02 with another rice cultivar.

The present invention discloses rice serine hydroxymethyltransferase coded gene OsSHM4 mutants and application thereof. The rice serine hydroxymethyltransferase coded gene mutants are obtained in a manner that T at a 461st position of a CDS sequence region of a wild type rice OsSHM4 gene is mutated to C, so that coded amino acids thereof are mutated from leucine to proline. A CDS sequence of the wild type rice OsSHM4 gene is shown in SEQ ID NO. 1. After mutation of serine hydroxymethyltransferase coded genes OsSHM4, under a field experiment condition, S and Se content of rice shoots is remarkably improved without influencing biomass of rice. After wild type serine hydroxymethyltransferase coded genes OsSHM4 are genetically modified to complement the mutants, S and Se content of shoots of complemented strains is restored to that of wild type rice water planting.

This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying Growth Regulating Factor (GRF) family transcription factors in soybean plants to produce soybean plants having improved pathogen resistance, optionally with improved or maintained yield traits, and/or soybean plants having improved yield traits without loss of pathogen resistance. The invention further relates to soybean plants produced using the methods and compositions of the invention.

The inbred rice line designated DG263L is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of inbred rice line designated DG263L, the plants of inbred rice line designated DG263L, plant parts of inbred rice line designated DG263L, and methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing rice DG263L with itself or with another rice variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to rice cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from inbred rice line designated DG263L, and the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing DG263L with another rice cultivar.

Plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the hybrid rice HR210001, and methods for producing a rice plant by crossing a rice plant of hybrid rice HR210001 with itself or with another rice plant, such as a plant of another rice variety or rice hybrid, are disclosed.

Provided are the herbicide-tolerant, aromatic (jasmine) rice cultivar designated ‘CLJ01’ and its hybrids and derivatives. The present invention provides a method for controlling weeds in the vicinity of rice, comprising contacting the rice with an herbicide, wherein said rice belongs to any of (a) variety ‘CLJ01’ or (b) a hybrid, derivative, or progeny of ‘CLJOV that expresses the imidazolinone herbicide resistance characteristics of ‘CLJOV. In some embodiments, the rice plants of the present invention include plants that comprise an AHAS mutant polypeptide that confers an increased tolerance to an imidazolinone herbicide when compared to a wild-type rice plant.

The herbicide-tolerant rice cultivar designated ‘CLL17’ and its hybrids and derivatives are disclosed.