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Selection under domestication: evidence for a sweep in the rice waxy genomic region.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2006
Olsen Kenneth M, Caicedo Ana L, Polato Nicholas, McClung Anna, McCouch Susan, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Rice (Oryza sativa) was cultivated by Asian Neolithic farmers >11,000 years ago, and different cultures have selected for divergent starch qualities in the rice grain during and after the domestication process. An intron 1 splice donor site mutation of the Waxy gene is responsible for the absence of amylose in glutinous rice varieties. This mutation appears to have also played an important role in the origin of...
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