矮秆水稻品种的选育和推广是20世纪水稻育种最主要的成就之一。综述了水稻矮化相关基因的遗传、定位、水稻植株的矮化机理以及矮秆基因的克隆和功能等方面的研究进展,同时分析了当前水稻矮化育种中存在的问题以及发展前景。
Breeding of dwarf rice varieties and their wide use in production is one of the greatest achievements in rice breeding in the 20^th century. The authors reviewed the progresses in the research on the inheritance, localization, cloning and functions of dwarf genes and the mechanism of dwarfness in rice. The existing problems and deyeloping prospects in breeding of dwarf rice varieties were also discussed in the paper.