Makoto Matsuoka

TL;DR: It is shown that a QTL that increases grain productivity in rice, Gn1a, is a gene for cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (OsCKX2), an enzyme that degrades the phytohormone cytokinIn.

TL;DR: The results indicate that GID1 is a soluble receptor mediating GA signalling in rice, a new GA-insensitive dwarf mutant of rice, that encodes an unknown protein with similarity to the hormone-sensitive lipases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors detect relativistic effects in an X-ray emission line (the Kα line) from ionized iron in the galaxy MCG-6-30-15.

TL;DR: The chronic food shortage that was feared after the rapid expansion of the world population in the 1960s was averted largely by the development of a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety of rice known as IR8, the so-called rice 'green revolution'; this gene is identified as encoding an oxidase enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of gibberellin, a plant growth hormone.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the introduction of three quantitative trait loci from deepwater rice into non-deepwater rice enabled the latter to become deepwater Rice, and will contribute to rice breeding in lowland areas that are frequently flooded during the rainy season.