To help rice farmers, geneticists study how nature produces a weed

As rice farmers across the south prepare to plant their crop this month, University of Massachusetts Amherst evolutionary geneticist Ana Caicedo and a research team are beginning a major new study of how weeds evolve in general and of weedy rice in particular, one of the prime threats to rice production worldwide and in the United States.

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