The giant embryo(ge) mutation was genetically mapped to chromosome 7 by Koh et al. The ge mutations were analyzed at the morphologic and genetic level by Hong et al. And this publication linked the GE gene as being required for proper endosperm development. Researchers in Dupont cloned the GE gene, sequenced and characterized the ge alleles of the mutants. the three giant embryo mutant lines we obtained by treating MNU to Hwacheongbyeo, a japonica type Korean rice cultivar, differed in their embryo and endosperm size and their embryo/endosperm ratios. We named these alleles affecting the embryo size in rice GE, ge-m, ge, ge-s (GE: the wild type, ge-m: embryo slightly larger than in the wild type, ge: large embryo, ge-s: embryo even larger than in ge). The ORFs and introns of the four different alleles in the GE locus were sequenced and compared with the corresponding sequences in the patent that dupont presented. Each mutant alleles sequence showed a few SNPs in the ORF region. Two SNPs were shared among the three mutant lines and each mutant line hab one or two additional SNPs. Further studies are in progress regarding the GE RNA expression level in each mutant line and the F1 seed phenotypes and allelism relationship among the mutant lines.