The mother of all cultivated rice was grown on China’s Pearl River, according to a DNA “map” published on Wednesday. The first domesticated strain of rice was Oryza sativa japonica, which was grown thousands of years ago from wild rice in the middle of the Pearl River in southern China,…
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