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Oryza glaberrima Steud.
Explanations
- Genome designation
- AA
- Chromosome number
- Diploid, 2n=24
- Distribution
- West Africa and Zanzibar and Pemba.
- Key characteristics
- Non-shattering, short rounded ligule.
- Habitat
- Cultivated fields
- Potentially useful traits
- This species is adapted to a range of eco-edaphic conditions in West Africa.
- Notes
- Recently crosses between O. sativa and O. glaberrima have been released to farmers as NERICA varieties.
- References
- M. Semon, R. Nielsen, M.P. Jones, S.R. McCouch. 2005. The population structure of African cultivated rice Oryza glaberrima (Steud.): Evidence for elevated levels of linkage disequilibrium caused by admixture with O. sativa and ecological adaptation. Genetics 169: 1639-1647.
- Vaughan, D.A., S. Miyazaki, K. Miyashita. 2004. The rice genepool and human migrations. Pages 1-13 in Biological Resources and Migration. D. Werner (ed.) Springer, Heidelberg