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Plant genomics: African origins of ‘black rice’

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Genome sequencing reveals similarities between rice grown by Maroon communities in Suriname and landraces from the Guinea Highlands of West Africa.

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Figure 1: A map of Suriname, South America, based on a drawing by H. Rypkema.
Figure 2: A flowering stalk of Oryza glaberrima (MJ 7075) from a Maroon field in Suriname.

M. J. JANSEN-JACOBS

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  1. Terence A. Brown is in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.,

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Brown, T. Plant genomics: African origins of ‘black rice’. Nature Plants 2, 16148 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.148

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