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Origin, dispersal, cultivation and variation of rice.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Sept 1997
Khush G S
Abstract excerpt
There are two cultivated and twenty-one wild species of genus Oryza. O. sativa, the Asian cultivated rice is grown all over the world. The African cultivated rice, O. glaberrima is grown on a small scale in West Africa. The genus Oryza probably originated about 130 million years ago in Gondwanaland and different species got distributed into different continents with the breakup of Gondwanaland. The cultivated...
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