Article
Genomic patterns of nucleotide diversity in divergent populations of U.S. weedy rice.
BMC evolutionary biology - 15 Jun 2010
Reagon Michael, Thurber Carrie S, Gross Briana L, Olsen Kenneth M, Jia Yulin, Caicedo Ana L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Weedy rice (red rice), a conspecific weed of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.), is a significant problem throughout the world and an emerging threat in regions where it was previously absent. Despite belonging to the same species complex as domesticated rice and its wild relatives, the evolutionary origins of weedy rice remain unclear. We use genome-wide patterns of single nucleotide polymorphism...
Topics
- Crops, Agricultural
- DNA, Plant
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Plant
- Models, Biological
- Oryza
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- United States
