Genomic insights into the medieval cultivation history of influential high-yielding Asian rice.

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High-yielding rice landraces that contributed substantially to historical population expansions were widely cultivated across Asia. These landraces are generally believed to have been Champa rice, which originated in present-day Vietnam. Historical records indicate that Champa rice was disseminated to southern China in the eleventh century and subsequently transmitted to medieval western Japan. Contrary to the...

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