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Channel millet, a native grass, possesses twelve chromosome copies, a trait linked to domestication. Mithaka people utilized ...

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Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia. Scientists have now found an odd trait in its DNA

Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.