Oryza sativa Transcriptome or Gene expression

Drought stress remains a critical constraint to rice productivity, particularly during the early vegetative stages in rainfed environments.Exploring the untapped genetic diversity within landraces offers promising avenues for identifying key adaptive traits necessary for developing climate-resilient rice varieties. This study aims to bridge existing knowledge gaps by employing an integrated GWAS and transcriptomic approach to identify genomic loci and candidate genes associated with early vegetative-stage drought tolerance in Myanmar rice landraces.