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In Kashmir’s traditional rice, clues to a journey from East Asia

Kashmir’s traditional varieties carry cold-tolerance and other locally adapted genes that modern varieties have partly lost, making them potentially valuable as climate change increases stress on crops, new…

In Kashmir’s traditional rice, clues to a journey from East Asia
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Kashmir’s traditional varieties carry cold-tolerance and other locally adapted genes that modern varieties have partly lost, making them potentially valuable as climate change increases stress on crops, new research has found. The analysis also indicated the varieties are more closely related to those from the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China

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