Pengfei Cheng, Jun Wang, Zhushan Zhao, Lingshuai Kong, Wang Lou, Tong Zhang, Dedao Jing, Julong Yu, Zhaolin Shu, Liqin Huang, Wenjiao Zhu, Qing Yang, Wenbiao Shen
How to use environmentally friendly technology to enhance rice field and grain quality is a challenge for the scientific community. Here, we showed that the application of molecular hydrogen in the form of hydrogen nanobubble water could increase the length, width, and thickness of brown/rough rice and white rice, as well as 1000-grain weight, compared to the irrigation with ditch water. The above results were well matched with the transcriptional profiles of representative genes related to high yield, including up-regulation of heterotrimeric G protein β-subunit gene ( RGB1 ) for cellular proliferation, Grain size 5 ( GS5 ) for grain width, Small grain 1 ( SMG1 ) for grain length and width, Grain weight 8 ( GW8 ) for grain width and weight, and down-regulation of negatively correlated gene Grain size 3 ( GS3 ) for grain length...
October 28, 2021: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)