Overexpression of rice gene OsATG8b confers tolerance to nitrogen starvation and increases yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in Arabidopsis

• Xiaoxi Zhen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Rice Research Institute of Shenyang Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Northern Japonica Rice Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education and Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Northeast Rice Biology and Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Shenyang, China

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• Fan Xu ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: celiafanfan@syau.edu.cn (FX); zwzhong1@syau.edu.cn (WZ)

  Affiliation Rice Research Institute of Shenyang Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Northern Japonica Rice Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education and Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Northeast Rice Biology and Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Shenyang, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4805-269X

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• Wenzhong Zhang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: celiafanfan@syau.edu.cn (FX); zwzhong1@syau.edu.cn (WZ)

  Affiliation Rice Research Institute of Shenyang Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Northern Japonica Rice Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education and Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Northeast Rice Biology and Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Shenyang, China

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• Nan Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Shen Yang Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute, Shenyang, China

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• Xin Li

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Rice Research Institute of Shenyang Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Northern Japonica Rice Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Education and Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Northeast Rice Biology and Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Shenyang, China

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