Transgenic restorer rice line T1c-19 with stackedcry1C*/bargenes has low weediness potential without selection pressure

摘要

Stacked (insect and herbicide resistant) transgenic rice T1c-19 withcry1C*/bargenes, its receptor rice Minghui 63 (herein MH63) and a local two-line hybridindica rice Fengliangyou Xiang 1 (used as a control) were compared for agronomic performance under ifeld conditions without the relevant selection pressures. Agronomic traits (plant height, tiler number, and aboveground dry biomass), reproductive ability (polen viability, panicle length, and ifled grain number of main pani-cles, seed set, and grain yield), and weediness characteristics (seed shattering, seed overwintering ability, and volunteer seedling recruitment) were used to assess the potential weediness without selection pressure of stacked transgene rice T1c-19. In wet direct-seeded and transplanted rice ifelds, T1c-19 and its receptor MH63 performed similarly regarding vegetative growth and reproductive ability, but both of them were signiifcantly inferior to the control. T1c-19 did not display weed characteristics; it had weak overwintering ability, low seed shattering and failed to establish volunteers. Exogenous insect and herbicide resistance genes did not confer competitive advantage to transgenic rice T1c-19 grown in the ifeld without the relevant selection pressures.