Sentences with phrase «domesticated japonica»

Traders carried domesticated japonica from China to India, where it was bred with the cultivated rice species O. nivara to produce domesticated aus about 4,000 years ago, Fuller, Purugganan and colleagues reported in January in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Not exact matches

DNA evidence clearly shows that China's wild O. rufipogon was domesticated into O. sativa japonica.

Scientists used to think modern rice, Oryza sativa, was domesticated twice: sticky, short - grained japonica rice was domesticated in China, and in India, rice was domesticated into long - grained varieties indica and aus.

Yet the majority of rice crops that supply 90 percent of the world come from just two domesticated varieties, japonica and indica.

japonica, and introgressive hybridization from early japonica to proto - indica and proto - aus led to domesticated indica and aus rice.