“…High temperature is one of the main factors adversely affecting rice grain yield and quality (Lanning, Siebenmorgen, Counce, Ambardekar, & Mauromoustakos, ; Liu, Wu, Ma, et al., ; Shi et al., ). Focusing on the negative influence of high temperature stress on physiological characteristics and the formation of grain yield and quality in rice, numerous studies have been conducted under field condition or in greenhouse (Jiang, Dian, & Wu, ; Kong et al., ; Li et al., ; Matsui, Omasa, & Horie, , ). It has been established that rice is most sensitive to high temperature stress during reproductive stage, that is, from panicle initiation to grain‐filling stage (Jagadish, Craufurd, & Wheeler, ; Jagadish et al., ; Prasad, Boote, Allen, Sheehy, & Thomas, ).…”