New plant type (NPT) or ideal plant architecture (IPA) is an attractive way of increasing yield potential by promoting high resource use efficiency combined with better lodging resistance. In a recent paper in Cell Research, Wang et al. describe how a QTL they identified could bring about the desired NPT architecture by elucidating the role of its encoded gene in controlling the stability of IPA1/OsSPL14, a previously reported NPT protein, in the context of ubiquitination.

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迈向更好的稻米结构的新途径

新植物类型（NPT）或理想植物结构（IPA）是通过提高资源利用效率和更好的抗倒伏性来提高单产的诱人方法。在《细胞研究》的最新论文中，Wang等人。描述了他们确定的QTL如何通过泛素化背景下阐明其编码基因在控制IPA1 / OsSPL14（先前报道的NPT蛋白）的稳定性中的作用来实现所需的NPT结构。