Ongoing increases in the human population necessitate that rice will continue to be a critical
aspect of food security for the twenty-first century. While production must increase in the …

Research related to crop domestication has been transformed by technologies and
discoveries in the genome sciences as well as information-related sciences that are …

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient that is frequently inaccessible to plants. Rice (Oryza
sativa L.) plants employ the Combined Strategy for Fe uptake, which is composed by all …

The evolution of problematic plants, both weeds and invasives, is a topic of increasing
interest. Plants that have evolved from domesticated ancestors have certain advantages for …

Weeds are among the greatest pests of agriculture, causing billions of dollars in crop losses
each year. As crop field management practices have changed over the past 12 000 years …

De-domestication or feralization is an interesting phenomenon in crops and livestock.
Previously, evidence for crop de-domestication was based mainly on studies using …

Weedy rice refers to the unwanted plants of the genus Oryza that have some undesirable
agronomic traits and pose a major threat to sustainable rice production worldwide …

Weedy red rice (Oryza sativa spontonea) is a persistent and problematic weed of rice culture
worldwide. A major hypothesis for the mechanism of production of this weed in South and …

Cultivated rice fields worldwide are plagued with weedy rice, a conspecific weed of
cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.). The persistence of weedy rice has been attributed, in part, to …

Pollen-mediated gene flow is the major pathway for transgene escape from GM rice to its
wild relatives. Transgene escape to wild Oryza species having AA-genome will occur if GM …