date:Jul 29, 2020
ina, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Researchers reconstructed the development of rice across Asia using whole-genome sequences of over 1,400 varieties in the two main subspecies of rice, japonica and indica, as well as geographic, archaeological, and historic climate data.
Lead scientist and Silver Professor of Biology at New York University, faculty investigator at NYUAD's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, and the leader of the study Michael Purugganan commented on the research: We are alw