Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Rice is a staple crop for half the world's population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion
over the next 30 years. It is also a key model for studying the genomics of agroecosystems …

Pan-genomes from large natural populations can capture genetic diversity and reveal
genomic complexity. Using de novo long-read assembly, we generated a graph-based …

The origin of domesticated Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been controversial for more than
half a century. The debates have focused on two leading hypotheses: a single domestication …

Extensive allelic variation in agronomically important genes serves as the basis of rice
breeding. Here, we present a comprehensive map of rice quantitative trait nucleotides …

Domestication is a co-evolutionary process that occurs when wild plants are brought into
cultivation by humans, leading to origin of new species and/or differentiated populations that …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important food crops, and is comprised largely
of japonica and indica subspecies. Here, we reconstruct the history of rice dispersal in Asia …

Background Asian rice is one of the world's most widely cultivated crops. Large-scale
resequencing analyses have been undertaken to explore the domestication and de …

Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber,
forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society …

In rice grains, the Waxy (Wx) gene is responsible for the synthesis of amylose, the most
important determinant for eating and cooking quality. The effects of several Wx alleles on …