The present invention belongs to the technical field of
plant genetic engineering, and relates to the technical field of
crop breeding, and specifically relates to an application of a
MYB transcription factor OsMYBR17
gene that simultaneously promotes tillering and
panicle development in increasing rice yield, wherein the
protein encoded by the OsMYBR17
gene is a
protein with an
amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.1; or it is a
protein with equivalent activity obtained by replacing, substituting and / or adding one or more amino acids to the
amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO.1. This technical solution has discovered for the first time a
gene that simultaneously positively regulates tillering and
panicle development, which can promote rice tillering, increase the number of rice tillers, the
panicle length of a single panicle
branch, the weight of a single panicle, and the number of panicle grains per panicle, thereby increasing rice yield. The overexpression of this gene can be applied to the genetic improvement of
rice plant type and yield, creating conditions for increasing rice yield and cultivating rice with a new
plant type.