title: Grains on the chessboard.
abstract: Recent progress in mapping quantitative growth traits (QTL s) in rice yields insights into mechanisms of plant growth, hints at genomic signatures of the domestication process and promotes the prospect of agricultural improvement via introgression of beneficial variants.
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D017343:Genes, Plant; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci / Q000235:genetics