The invention belongs to the technical field of bioenvironmental safety detection, and particularly relates to a method for lowering seed shattering of a
hybrid progeny of cultivated rice and
weedy rice by using a SH4
gene silencing. According to the method, a
gene silencing technology is applied to make the function of the seed shattering
gene SH4 of the cultivated rice loss, once cultivated rice transgenes which contain SH4
gene silencing elements are transferred to a
weedy rice colony through
gene flow, the risk of
transgene diffusion can be lowered since the seed shattering is lowered; meanwhile, the seed shattering and diffusibility of the
weedy rice colony which contains the SH4
gene silencing elements can be lowered greatly, accordingly through the
gene flow from the cultivated rice to the weedy rice, characteristics of seed shattering lowering can be transferred to the weedy rice colony, and the purposes of controlling the
diffusion of the weedy rice colony and lowering the risk of the weedy rice are achieved. The method can greatly lower the
environmental safety risk which can be caused after the transgenes escape to the weedy rice, lower the weedy rice
diffusion and endanger and avoid economic loss, and has broad application prospects.