A well-supported nuclear phylogeny of Poaceae and implications for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

W Huang, L Zhang, JT Columbus, Y Hu, Y Zhao… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Poaceae (the grasses) includes rice, maize, wheat, and other crops, and is the most
economically important angiosperm family. Poaceae is also one of the largest plant families …

Molecular evidence for a single evolutionary origin of domesticated rice

J Molina, M Sikora, N Garud… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is
believed to have been domesticated∼ 9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains …

Genetic Architecture of Aluminum Tolerance in Rice (Oryza sativa) Determined through Genome-Wide Association Analysis and QTL Mapping

AN Famoso, K Zhao, RT Clark, CW Tung… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a primary limitation to crop productivity on acid soils, and rice has
been demonstrated to be significantly more Al tolerant than other cereal crops. However, the …

Relationships of wild and domesticated rices (Oryza AA genome species) based upon whole chloroplast genome sequences

PW Wambugu, M Brozynska, A Furtado, DL Waters… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Rice is the most important crop in the world, acting as the staple food for over half of the
world's population. The evolutionary relationships of cultivated rice and its wild relatives …

Evolution of Oryza chloroplast genomes promoted adaptation to diverse ecological habitats

LZ Gao, YL Liu, D Zhang, W Li, J Gao, Y Liu… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
The course, tempo and mode of chloroplast genome evolution remain largely unknown,
resulting in limited knowledge about how plant plastome gene and genome evolve during …

Two Distinct Plastid Genome Configurations and Unprecedented Intraspecies Length Variation in the accD Coding Region in Medicago truncatula

C Gurdon, PAL Maliga - DNA research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We fully sequenced four and partially sequenced six additional plastid genomes of the
model legume Medicago truncatula. Three accessions, Jemalong 2HA, Borung and …

Rice

J Bao - ICC Handbook of 21st Century Cereal Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cultivated rice has two species. Asian cultivated rice, Oryza sativa, is the main species that
is grown all over the world. African cultivated rice, Oryza glaberrima, is mainly grown in West …

Domestication and geographic origin of Oryza sativa in China: insights from multilocus analysis of nucleotide variation of Osativa and Orufipogon

X Wei, WH Qiao, YT Chen, RS Wang, LR Cao… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have indicated that C hina is one of the domestication centres of A sian
cultivated rice (O ryza sativa), and common wild rice (O. rufipogon) is the progenitor of O …

QTL Detection and Elite Alleles Mining for Stigma Traits in Oryza sativa by Association Mapping

X Dang, E Liu, Y Liang, Q Liu, CM Breria… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Stigma traits are very important for hybrid seed production in Oryza sativa, which is a self-
pollinated crop; however, the genetic mechanism controlling the traits is poorly understood …

High-quality genomes and high-density genetic map facilitate the identification of genes from a weedy rice

F Li, Z Han, W Qiao, J Wang, Y Song, Y Cui… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genes have been lost or weakened from cultivated rice during rice domestication and
breeding. Weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) is usually recognized as the progeny …