1 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. OPEN ACCESS – RESEARCH ARTICLE Physiological, anatomical and transcriptional alterations in a rice mutant leading to enhanced water stress tolerance John Milton Lima 1,2 , Manoj Nath 1 , Prasad Dokku 1 , KV Raman 1 , KP Kulkarni 1 , C Vishwakarma 1 , SP Sahoo 1 , UB Mohapatra 2 , SV Amitha Mithra 1 , V Chinnusamy 3 , S Robin 4 , N Sarla 5 , M Seshashayee 6 , K Singh 7 , AK Singh 3 , NK Singh 1 , RP Sharma 1 and T Mohapatra 1,8 * 1 National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi, India 2 Department of Botany, North Orissa University, Baripada, Odisha, India 3 Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 4 Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India 5 Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad, India 6 University Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India 7 Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India 8 Present address: Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India *Corresponding author Corresponding author’s e-mail address: tmnrcpb@gmail.com Running head: EMS induced mutant with water stress tolerance Received: 23 March 2014; Revised: 14 September 2014; Accepted: 26 February 2015 AoB PLANTS Advance Access published March 27, 2015 by guest on March 27, 2015 http://aobpla.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from