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Kinship Without a Map: What Kashmir's Rice Genes Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Valley's Past

A genomic study from SKUAST-Kashmir places the valley's traditional rice landraces closest to temperate japonica rice of Northeast Asia and identifies cold-adaptation genes in them that are worth conserving. Scientists commenting on the study note that the genetic evidence shows a relationship but not the route rice took into Kashmir and that the rice grains found at Burzahom and Gufkral could not be radiocarbon dated…