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. 2015 Jul;27(7):1818.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.15.00504. Epub 2015 Jun 16.

Domesticated versus Wild Rice? Bring It Awn!

Jennifer Mach  1
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Domesticated versus Wild Rice? Bring It Awn!

Jennifer Mach. Plant Cell. 2015 Jul.
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Awns of wild and cultivated rice. (A) shows the panicles of wild rice (left) and domesticated rice (right), bar = 10 cm; (B) shows the seeds of wild rice (top) and a domesticated rice (bottom), bar = 1 cm; (C) shows the surface of a wild rice awn (left) and a domesticated rice awn (right) under a scanning electron microscope, bar = 200 μm. (Image in [A] reprinted from Hua et al. [2015], Figures 1C and 2A; images in [B] and [C] courtesy of Lei Hua.)
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