Biology:Oryza grandiglumis

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Short description: Rice wild relative, S. & Central America

Oryza grandiglumis
Oryza grandiglumis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oryza
Species:
O. grandiglumis
Binomial name
Oryza grandiglumis
(Döll) Prodoehl

Oryza grandiglumis is a type of wild rice of the genus Oryza[1] found in tropical countries of South- and Central- America,[2]:6 namely Argentina , Bolivia, Brazil , Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Paraguay, Venezuela, and Peru. Discovered in 1998 in Caño Negro, in northern Costa Rica, it is an annual plant with short rhizomes; its culms can reach 790 centimetres (311 in) and are 4–9 millimetres (5322364 in) in thickness.[3] They have developed aerenchyma which allows them to float.[4]

Genomics

Oryza grandiglumis is a tetraploid of 2nTemplate:NBSP=Template:NBSP48.[2]:6 It has a CCDD genome as with several others in the O. officinalis complex.[2]:6

References

Wikidata ☰ Q10937182 entry