The invention relates to the field of rice
gene engineering, and discloses an application of a GSE3.1
protein and a coding
gene thereof in regulating and controlling the grain length, the grain width and the
grain weight of rice seeds. According to the invention, a GSE3.1
gene is edited based on a
CRISPR / Cas9 technology, a
japonica rice variety Zhonghua 11 (ZH11) is introduced by using an
agrobacterium-mediated method, and a knockout
mutant is obtained through screening. The homozygous knockout
mutation of the GSE3.1 gene in the invention leads to reduction of the grain width and grain length of rice seeds and reduction of thousand
grain weight. According to the invention, the constructed
plant overexpression vector ProActin: GSE3.1 is expressed in
wild type ZH11, so that compared with the
wild type plant, the seed grain length and grain width of the transgenic
plant are obviously increased, and the thousand
grain weight is obviously increased. Therefore, the GSE3.1 gene and the encoding
protein thereof can regulate and control the size and the weight of the rice seeds, and are of great significance to cultivation of high-yield rice varieties.