Article
Rice domestication by reducing shattering.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 31 Mar 2006
Li Changbao, Zhou Ailing, Sang Tao
Abstract excerpt
Crop domestication frequently began with the selection of plants that did not naturally shed ripe fruits or seeds. The reduction in grain shattering that led to cereal domestication involved genetic loci of large effect. The molecular basis of this key domestication transition, however, remains unknown. Here we show that human selection of an amino acid substitution in the predicted DNA binding domain encoded by...
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