The role of the slave trade in the evolution of American wild rice species

Rice is the world's foremost cereal crop as a human food source. Today's cultivated varieties derive from the species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrina, domesticated respectively in Asia and West Africa. Besides these two domestic taxa, there are around 20 species of wild rice of the genus Oryza, all located in the tropics...

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