News Headline
‘Two rice varieties first domesticated in India’
Source
Times of India
Publication Date
2015-07-02
VARANASI: Amidst raging controversy whether rice originated in India or China, data generated by a DNA chip developed for fingerprinting of rice by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) scientists has indicated that the two most important groups of cultivated rice varieties were first domesticated in the Indian subcontinent.