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Oryza sativa (rice)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. Oryza sativa is a grass with a genome consisting of 430Mb across 12 chromosomes. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify, and is a model organism for cereal biology.
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Infraspecies

Oryza perennis var. perennis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [3]  Grass

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc France, Spain Palearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    
Eastern Iberia Andorra, France, Spain Palearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    
Southern Iberia Portugal, Spain Palearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge VI 28351 Louisiana, United States

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aphelenchoides coffeae <Unverified Name>[12]
Ditylenchus anchilisposomus[12]
Ditylenchus triformis[12]
Helicotylenchus digonicus[12]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Holochilus sciureus, Guillermo R. Barreto and Shaenandhoa GarcÍa-Rangel, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 780, pp. 1-5 (2005)
♦ 9HABITOS DE DESPLAZAMIENTO Y DIETA DEL CAPIBARA (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) EN LA AMAZONIA COLOMBIANA, Maria C. Arteaga, Jeffrey P. Jorgenson, Mastozoología Neotropical, 14(1):11-17, Mendoza, 2007
♦ 10BREEDING BEHAVIOR AND FOOD HABITS OF THE WATTLED JACANA, DAVID R. OSBORNE AND GODFREY R. BOURNE, The Condor 79:98-105, 1977
♦ 11The Crop and Gizzard Food Contents of Purple Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus) in Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas of Borno State, Nigeria, S.D. YUSUFU AND Z.M. BELLO, Int. J. Agri. Biol., Vol. 6, No. 2, 2004, p. 270-271
♦ 12Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 13FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE PURPLE GALLINULE (Porphyrula martinica) IN THE CENTRAL LLANOS OF VENEZUELA, Zaida Tárano, Stuart Strahl and Juhani Ojasti, ECOTROPICOS 8(1-2): 53-61. 1995
♦ 14Penha, J. M. F. (1995). Alimentaçao de Rhynchotus rufescens na serra de Sao Vicente, municıpio de Santo Antônio de Leverger, Mato Grosso (Tinamiformes: Tinamidae). Ararajuba, 3, 55-56.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0