Recent increases in archaeobotanical and genetic evidence offer insights into agricultural
origins and plant domestication, which suggest a protracted process taking thousands of …

Understanding the process of domestication and its relationship with environmental
changes is fundamental to rice domestication research. The lower Yangtze region in China …

Background Archaeobotanists and palaeoecologists use geometric morphometrics
extensively to identify plant opal phytoliths. Particularly when applied to assemblages of …

Silicon oxide (SiO x) is a promising Si-based anode due to its abundant natural resources
and high theoretical capacity. Beyond the Earth's crust, extracting SiO x from phytolith-rich …

In East Asian archaeology, initial domestication and early dispersal of rice have
continuously attracted scholarly interest in the recent decade, which has generated …

Abstract South Hangzhou Bay in eastern China occupies an important position in tracing the
origins and dispersal of rice and rice cultures in ancient China. Existing literature suggests …

Abstract The lower Yangtze River valley has widely been regarded as centres of rice
domestication, tracing back to 10,000 cal a BP or even earlier in the late Pleistocene …

Changes in climate and land use are causing grasslands to suffer increasingly from abiotic
stresses, including soil salinization. Silicon (Si) amendment has been frequently proposed to …

The analysis of wild rice cell structures, tissues, organs, and other morphological
characteristics and the development of identification markers for wild rice are the basis for …

The southern spread of rice agriculture is of great academic interest. Although it already has
a broad chronological framework, newly introduced rice use and its impact on local …