Australian wild rice reveals pre-domestication origin of polymorphism deserts in rice genome.

BACKGROUND:Rice is a major source of human food with a predominantly Asian production base. Domestication involved selection of traits that are desirable for agriculture and to human consumers. Wild relatives of crop plants are a source of useful variation which is of immense value for crop improvem...

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Main Authors: Gopala Krishnan S, Daniel L E Waters, Robert J Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4048307?pdf=render