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. 2022 Jan 10;32(1):R20-R24.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.025.

Rice domestication

Alice Fornasiero  1 , Rod A Wing  2 , Pamela Ronald  3
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Rice domestication

Alice Fornasiero et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Rice is a staple food crop for more than one-third of the global population (http://www.sustainablerice.org/), of which 90% live at or near the poverty line. Thus, rice genetic improvement is important for global food security and is critical for enhancing socioeconomic benefits and reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture. In continued efforts to address the long-standing problem of food security and sustainable agriculture, scientists are utilizing genes from diverse varieties of rice to improve the resilience of rice to pests, diseases and environmental stress. This Primer describes the history of rice domestication, the importance of wild relatives of rice for crop improvement, and the domestication of wild species of rice not previously planted by farmers - a new approach called neodomestication.

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