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Oryza nivara Sharma et Shastry
Distribution
Habitat
Plant
Plant
Inflorescence
Spikelet
Explanations
- Genome designation
- AA
- Chromosome number
- Diploid, 12
- Distribution
- Continental Southeast Asia, South Asia
- Key characteristics
- Tufted herb, anthers <3mm. Annual.
- Habitat
- Open sites, usually shallow, seasonally dry, ponds or edge of irrigation tanks.,
- Potentially useful traits
- Resistance to biotic stresses (grassy stunt virus), abiotic stresses (drought).
- Notes
- Cross compatible with O. sativa and O. rufipogon. When sympatric with O. rufipogon reproductive isolation is provided by its earlier flowering. Introgression from O. sativa is commonly seen.
- References
- Morishima, H., Y. Sano, and H. I. Oka 1984. Differentiation of perennial and annual types due to their habitat conditions in the wild rice Oryza perennis. Plant Syst. Evol. 144:119-135.
