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Nitrogen-use efficiency: Transport solution in rice variations

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Over-application of nitrogen fertilizer leads to environmental problems in modern agricultural systems. The mining of favourable gene variants for nitrogen-use efficiency is a fundamental way to tackle these dangers.

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Figure 1: The two main subspecies of Asian cultivated rice (O. sativa), japonica (left) and indica (right).

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  1. Dai-Yin Chao and Hong-Xuan Lin are in the National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.,

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Chao, DY., Lin, HX. Nitrogen-use efficiency: Transport solution in rice variations. Nature Plants 1, 15096 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.96

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