Weedy rice, which differs genetically from wild and crop rice, is adapted for undercover life in agricultural fields
Monday, April 3, 2017 - 11:02
in Mathematics & Economics
A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals the deep history of a family, including some disreputable relatives. But the family in this case is Asian rice (Oryza sativa), and the disreputable relatives are the weedy cousins of domesticated rice.