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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445040 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Jingxu J Lu Zuomei Z Dai Weimin W Song Xiaoling X Peng Yufa Y Valverde Bernal E BE Qiang Sheng S
Scientific reports 20150527
Weedy rice infests paddy fields worldwide at an alarmingly increasing rate. There is substantial evidence indicating that many weedy rice forms originated from or are closely related to cultivated rice. There is suspicion that the outbreak of weedy rice in China may be related to widely grown hybrid rice due to its heterosis and the diversity of its progeny, but this notion remains unsupported by direct evidence. We screened weedy rice accessions by both genetic and molecular marker tests for th ...[more]