Katherine Dorph

TL;DR: A map of 2.32 million SNPs of African rice from whole-genome resequencing of 93 landraces shows a population bottleneck in this species, suggesting a protracted period of population size reduction likely commencing with predomestication management and/or cultivation.

TL;DR: P phenotypic selection analysis is used to estimate the type and strength of selection that acts on more than 15,000 transcripts in rice ( Oryza sativa), which provides insight into the adaptive evolutionary role of selection on gene expression.

TL;DR: A comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary and domestication history of African rice shows genetic structure within O. glaberrima was not domesticated from a single centric location but was a result of diffuse process where multiple regions contributed key alleles for different domestication traits.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests the domestication process for African rice was initiated in multiple regions of West Africa, caused potentially by the local environmental and cultivation preference of people, and not from a single domestication origin.

TL;DR: In this article , a field experiment was conducted to investigate potential constraints to selection for drought resistance in rice (Oryza sativa) using phenotypic selection analysis and quantitative genetics, finding that traits related to drought response were heritable and some were under selection, including selection for earlier flowering, which could allow drought escape.