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Could abiotic stress tolerance in wild relatives of rice be used to improve Oryza sativa?
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Feb 2014
Atwell Brian J, Wang Han, Scafaro Andrew P
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Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima have been selected to acquire and partition resources efficiently as part of the process of domestication. However, genetic diversity in cultivated rice is limited compared to wild Oryza species, in spite of 120,000 genotypes being held in gene banks. By contrast, there is untapped diversity in the more than 20 wild species of Oryza, some having been collected from just a few...
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