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Little White Lies: Pericarp Color Provides Insights into the Origins and Evolution of Southeast Asian Weedy Rice.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 7 Dec 2016
Cui Yongxia, Song Beng Kah, Li Lin-Feng, Li Ya-Ling, Huang Zhongyun, Caicedo Ana L, Jia Yulin, Olsen Kenneth M
Abstract excerpt
Weedy rice is a conspecific form of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) that infests rice fields and results in severe crop losses. Weed strains in different world regions appear to have originated multiple times from different domesticated and/or wild rice progenitors. In the case of Malaysian weedy rice, a multiple-origin model has been proposed based on neutral markers and analyses of domestication genes for...
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