@article {cubry_rise_2018,
	title = {The Rise and Fall of African Rice Cultivation Revealed by Analysis of 246 New Genomes},
	volume = {28},
	number = {14},
	year = {Submitted},
	pages = {2274{\textendash}2282.e6},
	abstract = {Summary African rice (Oryza glaberrima) was domesticated independently from Asian rice. The geographical origin of its domestication remains elusive. Using 246 new whole-genome sequences, we inferred the cradle of its domestication to be in the Inner Niger Delta. Domestication was preceded by a sharp decline of most wild populations that started more than 10,000 years ago. The wild population collapse occurred during the drying of the Sahara.~This finding supports the hypothesis that depletion of wild resources in the Sahara triggered African rice domestication. African rice cultivation strongly expanded 2,000 years ago. During the last 5 centuries, a sharp decline of its cultivation coincided with the introduction of Asian rice in Africa. A gene, {PROG}1, associated with an erect plant architecture phenotype, showed convergent selection in two rice cultivated species, Oryza glaberrima from Africa and Oryza sativa from Asia. In contrast, a shattering gene, {SH}5, showed selection signature during African rice domestication, but not during Asian rice domestication. Overall, our genomic data revealed a complex history of African rice domestication influenced by important climatic changes in the Saharan area, by the expansion of African agricultural society, and by recent replacement by another domesticated species.},
	keywords = {crop, domestication, population genomics, Rice},
	issn = {0960-9822},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.066},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218307024},
	author = {Cubry, Philippe and Tranchant-Dubreuil, Christine and Thuillet, Anne-C{\'e}line and C{\'e}cile Monat and Ndjiondjop, Marie-Noelle and Labadie, Karine and Corinne Cruaud and Engelen, Stefan and Scarcelli, Nora and Rhon{\'e}, B{\'e}n{\'e}dicte and Burgarella, Concetta and Dupuy, Christian and Larmande, Pierre and Wincker, Patrick and Fran{\c c}ois, Olivier and Sabot, Fran{\c c}ois and Vigouroux, Yves}
}
