Convertibility of Virescent Rice Associated With the Small Subunit of Ribulose-1, 5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase

Abstract

Virescent rice is a type of non-lethal chlorophyll deficient mutant generated by natural mutation, genetically known as mutation of nuclear genes. Under normal growing conditions, virescent rices can develop from white seedlings to green seedlings through a half-white stage (white leaves with green strips) and therefore possess the convertibility. This differs definitely from the lethal albino mutant of rice, such as those derived from anther culture. It has been known that the generation of albino pollen plants is due to the