Rice Researcher Kenneth M. Olsen Inspects Rice (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Rice Researcher Kenneth M. Olsen Inspects Rice

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New research from Washington University in St. Louis and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences finds that a sizeable amount of domestication-related changes in rice reflects selection on traits that are determined by a portion of the genome that does not transcribe proteins.

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Joe Angeles, Washington University in St. Louis

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