For 10,000 years, the major world food crop, rice, has reproduced sexually, rearranging its DNA with each generation and often losing desirable traits… until now. Researchers have devised a way to make rice reproduce asexually.

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For 10,000 years, the major world food crop, rice, has reproduced sexually, rearranging its DNA with each generation and often losing desirable traits… until now. Researchers have devised a way to make rice reproduce asexually.