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Control of a key transition from prostrate to erect growth in rice domestication [1]

The transition from the prostrate growth of ancestral wild rice (O. rufipogon Griff.) to the erect growth of Oryza sativa cultivars was one of the most critical events in rice domestication. This evolutionary step importantly improved plant architecture and increased grain yield.

Publication Date: 
28/09/2008
Lubin Tan [2], Xianran Li [3], Fengxia Liu & et al [4]
Nature Genetics [5]
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Agriculture [6], Agricultural Research [7], Plant Breeding [8], Rice [9], China [10]

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