中文摘要：

水稻叶色突变体表型变异明显，易于观察、利用和鉴别。叶色相关基因在水稻叶绿体形成与发育、叶绿素代谢等过程中，具有极其重要的作用。目前，在水稻所有的染色体中都发现了控制叶色相关的基因。文章从叶绿素合成、降解、水稻叶色突变表型以及叶色变化的分子机制等方面阐述了水稻叶色突变形成的机制。

英文摘要：

It＇ easy to observe rice color mutations because of their obvious phenotypic variations .Leaf color related genes play an important role in the process of rice chloroplast formation and growth as well as chlorophyll metabolism .So far ,leaf color controlling genes are found in all chromosomes of rice .This review mainly presents the formation mechanism of rice leaf color from the synthesis and degradation of chlorophyll ,the phenotypic variations of rice leaf color and the molecular mechanism of leaf color changes .