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    Rice Domestication Revealed by Reduced Shattering of Archaeological rice from the Lower Yangtze valley

    Plant remains dating to between 9000 and 8400 BP from a probable ditch structure at the Huxi site include the oldest rice (Oryza sativa) spikelet bases and associated plant remains recovered in China. The remains...

    Yunfei Zheng, Gary W. Crawford, Le** Jiang, Xugao Chen in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Characteristics of the short rachillae of rice from archaeological sites dating to 7000 years ago

    The abscission layer formed on a pedicel situated at the basal part of a short rachilla is an important characteristic for discriminating between wild, japonica, and indica rice. The short rachillae of paddy rice...

    YunFei Zheng, Guo** Sun, XuGao Chen in Chinese Science Bulletin (2007)