Hikari Ikeda

Genomic and ecological characterization of unclassified tetraploid Echinochloa plants distributed in northern Japan

The findings indicate the possibility that hexaploid E. crus-galli may have originated from a tetraploid Echinochloa species other than E. oryzicola, and revealed that ninja possesses a distinct genomic composition, while showing close relationships to E. oryzicola in both its chloroplast and nuclear genomes.