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Cultivated and weedy rice interactions and the domestication process.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2010
Lawton-Rauh Amy, Burgos Nilda
Abstract excerpt
Examining the targets of selection in crop species and their wild and weedy relatives sheds light on the evolutionary processes underlying differentiation of cultivars from progenitor lineages. On one hand, human-mediated directional selection in crops favours traits associated with the streamlining of controllable and predictable monoculture practices alongside selection for desired trait values. On the other...
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