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M Hemapriya1, Karaba N Nataraja1, T S Suryanarayanan2
1Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore 560 065, India.
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Plant domestication, at least in cereals, is associated with the loss of the shattering allele. In such species, grains are manually harvested and threshed, leaving behind naked seeds. This could have led to the loss of maternally borne seed microbiomes and their associated benefits in modern-day domesticated species.

