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Nature Genetics 40, 1365–1369 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng.247

Genetic control of rice plant architecture under domestication

Jian Jin , Wei Huang , Ji-Ping Gao , Jun Yang , Min Shi , Mei-Zhen Zhu , Da Luo & Hong-Xuan Lin

The closely related wild rice species Oryza rufipogon is considered the progenitor of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa). The transition from the characteristic plant architecture of wild rice to that of cultivated rice was one of the most important events in rice domestication; however, the molecular basis of this key domestication transition has not been elucidated.