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Nature Genetics 40, 1360–1364 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng.197

Control of a key transition from prostrate to erect growth in rice domestication

Lubin Tan , Xianran Li , Fengxia Liu , Xianyou Sun , Chenggang Li , Zuofeng Zhu , Yongcai Fu , Hongwei Cai , Xiangkun Wang , Daoxin Xie & Chuanqing Sun

The transition from the prostrate growth of ancestral wild rice (O. rufipogon Griff.) to the erect growth of Oryza sativa cultivars was one of the most critical events in rice domestication.