Broad Audience Title

Crops vs. Weeds: A Rice Tale

Scientific Title

Investigating the Evolutionary Genetics of Weedy Rice

By Shannon Kelly
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 4
2016
Advisor: 
Dr. Ana Caicedo, Biology
Executive Summary 

I am researching the evolutionary mechanisms behind several weed-linked genes in rice in order to learn more about the success of weedy crops in the agricultural environment.

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