Rice gone wild: How humans have inadvertently selected for 'weedy' rice

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Jul 10, 2024, 4:24 am377 pts
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered that the anatomical adaptation helping weedy rice varieties to proliferate is not, as previously believed, confined only to these pest varieties. The research, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Botany, shows that despite 10,000…

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