The invention discloses a rice CEF7
gene and application thereof in controlling
mechanical strength of stalks, grain size and salt tolerance, and relates to the technical field of agricultural
biology and
genetic engineering, and the CDS sequence of the CEF7
gene is as shown in SEQ ID No.1. The invention also provides an encoding
protein, a recombinant construct and a recombinant host
cell of the
gene CEF7, and the expression quantity of the gene CEF7 is improved by using various means, so that the
mechanical strength of rice stalks, the length-
width ratio of grains, the appearance quality of rice and the salt tolerance of
rice plants are improved. The method has the beneficial effects that by increasing the expression quantity of the CEF7 gene, the
mechanical strength of rice stalks, the length-
width ratio of grains, the appearance quality of rice and the salt tolerance of
rice plants can be improved.
Gene resources are provided for cultivation of new lodging-resistant, high-quality and stress-resistant rice varieties, and meanwhile, the method has guiding significance in research on molecular mechanisms of discussing rice
secondary cell wall biosynthesis, grain size formation and rice salt tolerance formation.