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SUBMITTER: Civan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6427689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Civáň Peter P Ali Sajid S Batista-Navarro Riza R Drosou Konstantina K Ihejieto Chioma C Chakraborty Debarati D Ray Avik A Gladieux Pierre P Brown Terence A TA
Genome biology and evolution 20190301 3
The aromatic group of Asian cultivated rice is a distinct population with considerable genetic diversity on the Indian subcontinent and includes the popular Basmati types characterized by pleasant fragrance. Genetic and phenotypic associations with other cultivated groups are ambiguous, obscuring the origin of the aromatic population. From analysis of genome-wide diversity among over 1,000 wild and cultivated rice accessions, we show that aromatic rice originated in the Indian subcontinent from ...[more]