Scientists have mapped the complete genome of two basmati rice varieties.
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The researchers focused on two basmati rice varieties: Basmati 334 from Pakistan, known to be drought tolerant and resistant to rice-killing bacterial blight, and Dom Sufid from Iran, an aromatic long-grain rice.
The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology, also show that basmati rice is a hybrid of two other rice groups.
Most genetic material in basmati comes from japonica —a rice group found in East Asia — followed by the rice group aus found in Bangladesh.
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