Early agricultural piracy informs the domestication of rice
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 17:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domestication of rice occurred at least twice independently but with extensive "borrowing" between the two subspecies.