Publications by authors named "Dinh Thi Lam"

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  • The water chestnut is the only known domesticated species of its genus, having originated and evolved in China.
  • Genetic comparison and seed analysis were performed between domesticated water chestnut and three wild species, revealing that the domesticated variety has the largest seed size and volume.
  • The study indicates that over 6000 years of artificial selection led to the development of larger edible parts, but this increase was not due to changes in ploidy levels.
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Upland rice production is limited by the low phosphorus (P) availability of many highly weathered tropical soils and P deficiency is likely to become increasingly limiting in future drier climates because P mobility decreases sharply with soil moisture. Good seedling root development will be crucial to cope with the combined effects of low P and water availability. Upland rice genebank accession DJ123 was used as a donor for P efficiency and root vigor traits in a cross with inefficient local variety Nerica4 and a set of backcross lines were used to characterize the seedling stage response of upland rice to low P availability and to identify associated QTL in field trials in Japan and Madagascar.

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Two types of perennial wild rice, Australian Oryza rufipogon and a new taxon Jpn2 have been observed in Australia in addition to the annual species Oryza meridionalis. Jpn2 is distinct owing to its larger spikelet size but shares O. meridionalis-like morphological features including a high density of bristle cells on the awn surface.

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