A recent study by Prof. Chong Kang’s group from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed a novel cold domesticated repair mechanism for DNA damage in rice, providing corresponding elite modules for the improvement of the chilling tolerance trait in rice with the codon repeats at a single site.
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Source: Phys.org