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Genetic structure and isolation by distance in a landrace of Thai rice.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Aug 2009
Pusadee Tonapha, Jamjod Sansanee, Chiang Yu-Chung, Rerkasem Benjavan, Schaal Barbara A
Abstract excerpt
Rice is among the 3 most important crops worldwide. While much of the world's rice harvest is based on modern high-yield varieties, traditional varieties of rice grown by indigenous groups have great importance as a resource for future crop improvement. These local landraces represent an intermediate stage of domestication between a wild ancestor and modern varieties and they serve as reservoirs of genetic...
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