Genetic and root phenotype diversity in Sri Lankan rice landraces may be related to drought resistance

Acknowledgements Mayuri Munasinghe was supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship (ref no. LKCS-2009-384). The development and use of the SNP chip was funded by a BBSRC grant BB/J003336/1. The authors thank Owen Price (University of Wollongong, Australia) for producing the coloured province map of Sri Lanka, Gareth Norton (Aberdeen) for merging the RDP1 SNP data with the Sri Lankan data and Tony Travis (Aberdeen) for help with PCA.

Irrigation regime affected SOC content rather than plow layer thickness of rice paddies : A county level survey from a river basin in lower Yangtze valley, China

Acknowledgements This work was funded by Natural Science Foundation of China under grant numbers of 41071337 and 40830528 and jointly by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, China.