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Genetics of high-rise rice

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When subject to flooding, deepwater rice survives by shooting up in height. Knowledge of the genetic context of this and other responses to inundation will be a boon in enhancing rice productivity.

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Figure 1: Ethylene and flooding-tolerance strategies in rice.

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  1. Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek is at the Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands. l.a.c.j.voesenek@uu.nl ,

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  2. Julia Bailey-Serres is at the Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. serres@ucr.edu ,

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