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Timing is everything: early degradation of abscission layer is associated with increased seed shattering in U.S. weedy rice.
BMC plant biology - 14 Jan 2011
Thurber Carrie S, Hepler Peter K, Caicedo Ana L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Seed shattering, or shedding, is an important fitness trait for wild and weedy grasses. U.S. weedy rice (Oryza sativa) is a highly shattering weed, thought to have evolved from non-shattering cultivated ancestors. All U.S. weedy rice individuals examined to date contain a mutation in the sh4 locus associated with loss of shattering during rice domestication. Weedy individuals also share the shattering...
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