date:Jul 29, 2020
An international team of researchers, including some from NYU Abu Dhabi, have identified a global cooling event 4,200 years ago, as a key factor in the evolution of rice. The study indicates that the cooling may have created new varieties of rice, and driven the subsequent spread across Asia of this global staple.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, the research, published in Nature Plants, reconstructs the evolutionary history of rice and its migration throughout Asia. While rice is now ubiqui