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Levels and patterns of nucleotide variation in domestication QTL regions on rice chromosome 3 suggest lineage-specific selection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Xie Xianfa, Molina Jeanmaire, Hernandez Ryan, Reynolds Andy, Boyko Adam R, Bustamante Carlos D, Purugganan Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Oryza sativa or Asian cultivated rice is one of the major cereal grass species domesticated for human food use during the Neolithic. Domestication of this species from the wild grass Oryza rufipogon was accompanied by changes in several traits, including seed shattering, percent seed set, tillering, grain weight, and flowering time. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping has identified three genomic regions in...
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