“…Therefore, moderate leaf rolling is an ideal trait for rice breeding (Price et al, 1997). To date, 12 rice mutants with rolled leaves (rl) have been isolated and reported in several different studies, for which six genes (rl1-rl6) were mapped on corresponding rice chromosomes through conventional genetic screening, and rl7 to rl12 were mapped to chromosomes 5 (rl7 and rl8; Li et al, 2000), 7 (rl11; Shi et al, 2009), 9 (rl9 [Yan et al, 2006] and rl10 [Luo et al, 2007]), and 10 (rl12; Luo et al, 2009). However, only a few mutant genes have been cloned and characterized, and most of these leaf-rolling genes are associated with leaf adaxial-abaxial polarity establishment.…”