Hypothesized domestication centers of domesticated Asian rice. (IMAGE)

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Hypothesized domestication centers of domesticated Asian rice.

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Geographic distributions of two ancestral species (O. rufipogon and O. nivara) were shaded in different colors. Origin and dispersal of the domesticated alleles shared by japonica and indica were depicted, with those in green diamond domesticated in japonica and those in brown triangle in indica.

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