In Rice, Geneticist Studies How Nature Produces a Weed
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 15:36
in Biology & Nature
As rice farmers across the southern U.S. prepare to plant their crop this month, evolutionary geneticist Ana Caicedo and others have begun a major new study of how weeds evolve in general and of invasive weedy rice in particular, a prime threat to a staple that feeds millions worldwide every year.