Oryza sativa is the most common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first domesticated...

Japonica rice (Oryza sativa subsp. japonica), sometimes called sinica rice, is one of the two major domestic types of Asian rice varieties. Japonica rice...

Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family. It includes the major food crop rice (species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima). Members of the genus...

soil that is able to grow rice. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or, much less commonly, O. glaberrima (African rice). Asian...

Japanese rice refers to a number of short-grain cultivars of Japonica rice including ordinary rice (uruchimai) and glutinous rice (mochigome). Ordinary...

freshly harvested "new crop" of jasmine rice. Jasmine rice is a variety of Oryza sativa. Jasmine rice is grown primarily in Thailand (Thai hom mali or Thai fragrant...

; Swamy, B. P. Mallikarjuna (2005-09-25). "Oryza glaberrima: A source for the improvement of Oryza sativa". Current Science. 89 (6). Indian Academy of...

Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring. An offspring...

evolutionary relation to Oryza sativa, the plant grown as a major rice food crop throughout the world. Both have an AA genome. Oryza rufipogon is an invasive...

Rice bran wax is the vegetable wax extracted from the bran oil of rice (Oryza sativa). The main components of rice bran wax are aliphatic acids (wax acids)...