Anil Chandran, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Heat stress during the grain-filling period has a detrimental effect on rice yield and quality. The development of heat-resilient cultivars could help address this issue if tolerant alleles can be identified and incorporated into the germplasm. This presentation will focus on the research conducted to understand the genetic basis of grain yield and quality under heat stress in rice.