Rice

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a plant in the grass family (Gramineae) that is cultivated for grain. It was domesticated from the wild ancestor Oryza rufipogon. There are two main varieties (subspecies) of rice, O. sativa ssp. indica and O. sativa ssp. japonica.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * International Rice Research Institute
 * IR-8

External Resources

 * Rice Intro, Gramene.org.
 * About Rice

External Articles

 * Kenji Asano, Masanori Yamasaki, Shohei Takuno, Kotaro Miura,Satoshi Katagiri, Tomoko Ito, Kazuyuki Doi, Jianzhong Wu, Kaworu Ebana, Takashi Matsumoto, Hideki Innan, Hidemi Kitano, Motoyuki Ashikari, and Makoto Matsuoka, "Artificial selection for a green revolution gene during japonica rice domestication," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 10, 2011.
 * Li-zhi Gao and Hideki Innan, "Nonindependent Domestication of the Two Rice Subspecies, Oryza sativa ssp. indica and ssp. japonica, Demonstrated by Multilocus Microsatellites," Genetics, April 1, 2008.