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Conceptualising teachers’ advocacy as comedic trickster behaviour: Implications for teacher education

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015
The conception of a comedic hero as a trickster functions as a useful trope for evaluating the attempts teachers make as advocates in schools. The specific elements of the trope that the authors find useful are (a) comedy as a space where the absurd ...
Mary Rice, Brian Rice
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Effects of Grain Shape Genes Editing on Appearance Quality of Erect-Panicle Geng/Japonica Rice

Rice, 2021
Long grain geng/japonica rice has a higher market preference due its excellent appearance quality. The dense and erect-panicle 1 (dep1) gene has been widely used in the breeding of high-yielding geng/japonica rice cultivars in China.
Ting Mao, Mingdong Zhu, Zhonghua Sheng, Gaoneng Shao, Guiai Jiao, Amos Musyoki Mawia, Shakeel Ahmad, Lihong Xie, Shaoqing Tang, Xiangjin Wei, Shikai Hu, Peisong Hu   +11 more
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Natural Diversity in Stomatal Features of Cultivated and Wild Oryza Species

Rice, 2020
Background Stomata in rice control a number of physiological processes by regulating gas and water exchange between the atmosphere and plant tissues. The impact of the structural diversity of these micropores on its conductance level is an important area
Jolly Chatterjee, Vivek Thakur, Robert Nepomuceno, Robert A. Coe, Jacqueline Dionora, Abigail Elmido-Mabilangan, Abraham Darius Llave, Anna Mae Delos Reyes, Apollo Neil Monroy, Irma Canicosa, Anindya Bandyopadhyay, Kshirod K. Jena, Darshan S. Brar, William Paul Quick   +13 more
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Open-source analytical pipeline for robust data analysis, visualizations and sharing in crop breeding

Plant Methods, 2022
Background Developing a systematic phenotypic data analysis pipeline, creating enhanced visualizations, and interpreting the results is crucial to extract meaningful insights from data in making better breeding decisions.
Waseem Hussain, Mahender Anumalla, Margaret Catolos, Apurva Khanna, Ma. Teresa Sta. Cruz, Joie Ramos, Sankalp Bhosale   +6 more
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Genes and Their Molecular Functions Determining Seed Structure, Components, and Quality of Rice

Rice, 2022
With the improvement of people's living standards and rice trade worldwide, the demand for high-quality rice is increasing. Therefore, breeding high quality rice is critical to meet the market demand.
Pei Li, Yu-Hao Chen, Jun Lu, Changquan Zhang, Qiaoquan Liu, Qianfeng Li   +5 more
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A real-time approach of diagnosing rice leaf disease using deep learning-based faster R-CNN framework

PeerJ Computer Science, 2021
The rice leaves related diseases often pose threats to the sustainable production of rice affecting many farmers around the world. Early diagnosis and appropriate remedy of the rice leaf infection is crucial in facilitating healthy growth of the rice ...
Bifta Sama Bari, Md. Nahidul Islam, M. Rashid, Md. Jahid Hasan, M. Razman, R. Musa, A. Nasir, A. P. Majeed   +7 more
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Isolation of TSCD11 Gene for Early Chloroplast Development under High Temperature in Rice

Rice, 2020
Background Chloroplasts are essential for photosynthesis and play key roles in plant development. High temperature affects structure of chloroplasts and metabolism in plants.
Guonan Fang, Shenglong Yang, Banpu Ruan, Chaolei Liu, Anpeng Zhang, Hongzhen Jiang, Shilin Ding, Biao Tian, Yu Zhang, Noushin Jahan, Li Zhu, Guangheng Zhang, Guojun Dong, Qiang Zhang, Dali Zeng, Longbiao Guo, Zhenyu Gao, Qian Qian   +17 more
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Validation of a QTL for Grain Size and Weight Using an Introgression Line from a Cross between Oryza sativa and Oryza minuta

Rice, 2021
Background Grain size and weight are important target traits determining grain yield and quality in rice. Wild rice species possess substantial elite genes that can be served as an important resource for genetic improvement of rice.
Yue Feng, Xiaoping Yuan, Yiping Wang, Yaolong Yang, Mengchen Zhang, Hanyong Yu, Qun Xu, Shan Wang, Xiaojun Niu, Xinghua Wei   +9 more
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Implications of the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype in metastasis

Frontiers in Oncology, 2015
Understanding cell-fate decisions during tumorigenesis and metastasis is a major challenge in modern cancer biology. One canonical cell-fate decision that cancer cells undergo is Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and its reverse Mesenchymal-to ...
Mohit Kumar eJolly, Marcelo eBoareto, Bin eHuang, Dongya eJia, Mingyang eLu, José N Onuchic, Herbert eLevine, Eshel eBen-Jacob   +7 more
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Sustainable intensification for a larger global rice bowl

Nature Communications, 2021
Future rice systems must produce more grain while minimizing the negative environmental impacts. A key question is how to orient agricultural research & development (R&D) programs at national to global scales to maximize the return on investment. Here we
Shen Yuan, B. Linquist, L. Wilson, K. Cassman, A. Stuart, V. Pede, B. Miro, K. Saito, N. Agustiani, V. E. Aristya, Leonardus Krisnadi, A. Zanon, A. Heinemann, G. Carracelas, N. Subash, P. Brahmanand, Tao Li, S. Peng, P. Grassini   +18 more
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