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Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, [2] is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.
Xie, CH; Yokota, A (April 2006). "Sphingomonas azotifigens sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from the roots of Oryza sativa".International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It includes the major food crop rice (species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima ). Members of the genus grow as tall, wetland grasses, growing to 1–2 metres (3–7 ft) tall; the genus includes both annual and perennial species.
For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). Rice plant (Oryza sativa) with branched panicles containing many grains on each stem Rice grains of different varieties at the International Rice Research Institute Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza ...
Golden rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of the rice. [1] [2] It is intended to produce a fortified food to be grown and consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A. Genetically modified golden rice can produce up ...
Rice ragged stunt virus (RRSV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Reoviridae.. RRSV, vectored by the brown planthopper (BPH) (Delphacidae: Nilaparvata lugens), causes ragged stunt disease of rice (Oryza spp., especially Oryza sativa). [1]
Oryza officinalis is species of flowering plant in the genus Oryza (rice) native to India, Nepal, the eastern Himalaya, southeast Asia, south-central and southeast China, Hainan, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. [2] A perennial diploid with the CC rice genome, it can reach 3 m (10 ft) in ...
Oryza rufipogon is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is known as brownbeard rice , [ 4 ] wild rice , [ 5 ] and red rice . [ 5 ] In 1965, Oryza nivara was separated off from O. rufipogon .