![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107045736im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Today's White Rice is Mutation Spread by Early Farmers
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August 16, 2007
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Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice comes from a mutation in a single gene, and that early farmers favored, bred and spread white rice around the world.
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Source Cornell University News Service
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