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Australian wild rice reveals pre-domestication origin of polymorphism deserts in rice genome.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Krishnan S Gopala, Waters Daniel L E, Henry Robert J
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BACKGROUND: Rice is a major source of human food with a predominantly Asian production base. Domestication involved selection of traits that are desirable for agriculture and to human consumers. Wild relatives of crop plants are a source of useful variation which is of immense value for crop improvement. Australian wild rices have been isolated from the impacts of domestication in Asia and represents a source of...
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