Does rice have both the characteristics of early maturing and high yield? Chinese scientists recently gave an affirmative answer. Zhang Jian's team, a researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Rice Biological Breeding at the China Rice Research Institute, successfully cloned a rare allele that simultaneously regulates the maturation period and yield of rice, revealing its molecular mechanism to break the “early maturing-high yield” genetic shackles of crops by balancing flowering and nitrogen utilization efficiency. The relevant research results were published online in the international academic journal “Science” on August 21.

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