Taxon: Oryza glaberrima Steud.

Common names:

• African rice   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• guang fu dao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• riz africain   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• riz de Casamance   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• afrikanischer Reis   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• arroz de Guinea   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: cereal   (fide IRRI Pap. 138:9. 1989)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of rice   (based on genome (A-carrier) constitution fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 96:1404. 1999)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Equatorial Guinea; French Equatorial Africa; Gabon; Ruanda-Urundi; Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo

• cultivated in tropics

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Ge, S. et al. 1999. Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96:14400–14405. [this study used two nuclear & one chloroplast gene to reconstruct the phylogeny of the genus; it found that this A-genome carrier taxon clusters with other taxa sharing same genome group in a recently diverged clade].
• Heuer, S. & K. M. Miézan. 2003. Assessing hybrid sterilility in Oryza glaberrima × O. sativa hybrid progenies by PCR marker analysis and crossing with wide compatibility varieties. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:902–909. [this study evaluated the genetic control of male sterility in hybrids of O. glaberrima X O. sativa & found no linkages between OSR25 marker for hybrid fertility & male sterility].
• Hilu, K. W. & L. V. Sharova. 2002. Evolutionary implications of substitution patterns in prolamin genes of Oryza glaberrima (African rice, Poaceae) and related species. Amer. J. Bot. 89:211–219.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sarla, N. et al. 2005. Oryza glaberrima: a source for the improvement of Oryza sativa. Curr. Sci. 89:955–963. [this review mentions the distinction of two main ecotypes; it also recounts compatibility with different types of O. sativa & tools to overcome stertility].
• Semon, M. et al. 2005. The population structure of African cultivated rice Oryza glaberrima (Steud.): evidence for elevated levels of linkage desequilibrium caused by admixture with O. sativa and ecological adapatation. Genetics 169:1639–1647. [this study based on nuclear microsatellite markers found cryptic subpopulations, with two of them showing hybridization with subspecies of O. sativa].
• Sharma, S. D. 2003. Species of genus Oryza and their interrelationships. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. (Monog Oryza) 81, 96, 100.
• Sweeney, M. & S. McCouch. 2007. The complex history of the domestication of rice. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 100:951–957. [this review summarizes what is known about this domesticated taxon, where crosses are possible with O. sativa].
• Tateoka, T. 1963. Taxonomic studies of Oryza. III. Key to the species and their enumeration. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 76:170.
• Vaughan, D. A. et al. 2003. Diversity in the Oryza genus. Curr. Opinion Pl. Biol. 6:139–145. [this review includes an overview of the taxonomy of the genus; reports this diploid taxon as an AA-genome carrier].
• Vaughan, D. A. 2003. Revised key to species in genus Oryza. In: Nanda, J. S. & S. D. Sharma, eds., Monograph on Genus Oryza. (Monog Oryza) 349.
• Vaughan. D. A. 1989. The genus Oryza L. Current status of taxonomy. Int. Rice Res. Inst. Techn. Pap. 138:10, 15.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Oryza glaberrima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Oryza glaberrima. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Oryza glaberrima Steud.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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