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1. Rice Cultivation

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   The earliest confirmed evidence of rice domestication dates back approximately 9,000 to 13,000 years in the Yangtze River valley region of China, focusing primarily on the $\textit{japonica}$ subspecies. The transition from wild grasses to cultivated strains involved selective pressures favoring traits such as non-shattering rachises (preventing seed dispersal upon maturity) and increased grain size, oft…