The Puzzle of Italian Rice Origin and Evolution: Determining Genetic Divergence and Affinity of Rice Germplasm from Italy and Asia

• Xingxing Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingxing Cai, Jing Fan

  Affiliation Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Jing Fan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingxing Cai, Jing Fan

  Affiliation Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Zhuxi Jiang,

  Affiliation Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Barbara Basso,

  Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council (CNR), Milano, Italy

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• Francesco Sala,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milano, Italy

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• Alberto Spada,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milano, Italy

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• Fabrizio Grassi,

  Affiliation Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milano, Italy

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• Bao-Rong Lu

  * E-mail: brlu@fudan.edu.cn

  Affiliation Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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