Largest rice genetics study finds vast differences in rice
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 07:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The largest publicly available genomewide association mapping study in rice to date has found that although the five subpopulations of Asian rice -- indica, aus, temperate japonica, aromatic and tropical japonica -- all belong to one species (Oryza sativa), their genetic structures are so different that, genetically speaking, they are almost like different species.