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The Birth of a Black Rice Gene and Its Local Spread by Introgression.
The Plant cell - 1 Sept 2015
Oikawa Tetsuo, Maeda Hiroaki, Oguchi Taichi, Yamaguchi Takuya, Tanabe Noriko, Ebana Kaworu, Yano Masahiro, Ebitani Takeshi, Izawa Takeshi
Abstract excerpt
The origin and spread of novel agronomic traits during crop domestication are complex events in plant evolution. Wild rice (Oryza rufipogon) has red grains due to the accumulation of proanthocyanidins, whereas most cultivated rice (Oryza sativa) varieties have white grains induced by a defective allele in the Rc basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) gene. Although the events surrounding the origin and spread of black...
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