The high selection pressure applied in rice breeding since its domestication thousands of
years ago has caused a narrowing in its genetic variability. Obtaining new rice cultivars …

Here, we review recent progress in genetic and genomic studies of the diversity of Oryza
species. In recent years, unlocking the genetic diversity of Oryza species has provided …

Crop domestication provided the calories that fueled the rise of civilization,,. For many crop
species, domestication was accompanied by the evolution of weedy crop relatives, which …

Global trade has considerably accelerated biological invasions. The annual tropical
teosintes, the closest wild relatives of maize, were recently reported as new agricultural …

De-domestication or feralization is an interesting phenomenon in crops and livestock.
Previously, evidence for crop de-domestication was based mainly on studies using …

Global environmental changes strongly impact wild and domesticated species biology and
their associated ecosystem services. For crops, global warming has led to significant …

Weedy rice refers to the unwanted plants of the genus Oryza that have some undesirable
agronomic traits and pose a major threat to sustainable rice production worldwide …

Background Worldwide feralization of crop species into agricultural weeds threatens global
food security. Weedy rice is a feral form of rice that infests paddies worldwide and …

Rice is the staple food for about half of the world population. Rice grain yield and quality are
affected by climatic changes. Arguably, rice cultivars' genetic diversity is diminished from …

Agricultural weeds descended from domesticated ancestors, directly from crops
(endoferality) and/or from crop–wild hybridization (exoferality), may have evolutionary …