Nature Communications (May 2017)

Genomic variation associated with local adaptation of weedy rice during de-domestication

  • Jie Qiu,
  • Yongjun Zhou,
  • Lingfeng Mao,
  • Chuyu Ye,
  • Weidi Wang,
  • Jianping Zhang,
  • Yongyi Yu,
  • Fei Fu,
  • Yunfei Wang,
  • Feijian Qian,
  • Ting Qi,
  • Sanling Wu,
  • Most Humaira Sultana,
  • Ya-Nan Cao,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Michael P. Timko,
  • Song Ge,
  • Longjiang Fan,
  • Yongliang Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15323
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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De-domestication is the process by which cultivated plants adopt characteristics similar to that of their wild predecessors. Here Qiuet al. re-sequence de-domesticated weedy rice and matched cultivated varieties and identify genetic variants indicative of convergent evolution across multiple de-domestication events.