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SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Ancient Carbonized Rice Grains

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Now, using new data collected samples of ancient, carbonized rice, a team of Japanese and Chinese scientists have successfully determined DNA sequences to make the first comparisons between modern and ancient rice. To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900-2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

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Masahiko Kumagai

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