Rice wild species

ORYZA GENUS
• Two cultivated (2 n = 24, AA)
– Oryza sativa
– O. glaberrima
• 22 wild species (2 n = 24, 48) - AA, BB,
CC, BBCC, CCDD, EE, FF, GG, KKLL,
and HHJJ genome types

Oryza glaberrima
“African rice”
Tolerance to
drought,
acidity,
Fe toxicity,
P deficiency;
Resistance to
 BB,
 blast,
 RYMV,
 African gallmidge,
 nematodes,
 weed competitiveness

Oryza nivara
Resistance to:
 grassy stunt virus
 BB

Oryza rufipogon
Resistance to
BB,
Blast
BPH
tungro virus
Moderately tolerant to Shb
Tolerance to aluminum and
soil acidity,
 increased elongation under
deep water;
 source of CMS and yield
enhancing loci

Oryza barthii
Resistance to
GLH
BB
drought avoidance
tolerance to heat and
drought

Oryza longistaminata
Resistance to
BB,
 nematodes
Stemborer

Oryza meridionalis
Elongation ability
tolerance to heat and drought

O. glumaepatula
Oryza minuta
source of CMS
tolerance to heat
Resistance to
BB
Blast
BPH
GLH

Oryza alta
Oryza brachyantha
Resistance to striped
stemborer
high biomass production
Resistance to
 BB,
 yellow
stemborer
 leaf folder
whorl maggot
tolerance to
laterite soil

Oryza coarctata
Oryza officinalis
Tolerance to salinity
Resistance to
thrips
BPH
GLH
WPH
 BB,
stem rot

Oryza punctata
Oryza ridleyi
Resistance to
 BPH,
BB
zigzag
leafhopper
and drought
Resistance to
Blast
BB
tungro virus
stem borer
whorl maggot

Figure 1: Undehusked seeds of African Oryza species. (a) Oryza
longistaminata (b) Oryza glaberrima 1 (c) Oryza glaberrima 2 (d)
Oryza brachyantha (e) Oryza eichingeri (f) Oryza punctata (g) Oryza
barthii.
Wambugu et al. 2013

Species 2 n Geno
me
No. of
accessions
Distribution Useful traits
O . sativa complex
O . sativa 24 AA 96,564 Cultigen high yielding
O .
glaberrima
24 A g A g 1,562 West Africa Cultigen;tolerance to drought,acidity,
iron toxicity,P deficiency;resistance
to BB,blast, RYMV, African
gallmidge,nematodes, weed
competitiveness
O . nivara 24 AA 1,260 Tropical and
subtropical
Asia
Resistance to grassy stunt virus, BB
O .
rufipogon
24 AA 858 Tropical and
subtropical
Asia,tropical
Australia
Resistance to BB, blast, BPH,
tungro virus; moderately tolerant to
Shb, tolerance to aluminum and soil
acidity, increased elongation under
deep water; source of CMS and
yield enhancing loci
ORYZA SPECIES, ORYZA -RELATED GENERA, AND
THEIR USEFUL TRAITS

Species 2 n Genome No. of
accessions
O .
breviligulata
O . barthii
24 A g A g 218 Africa Resistance to GLH, BB; drought
avoidance; tolerance to heat and
drought
O .
longistaminat
a
24 A l A l 203 Africa Resistance to BB,
nematodes,stemborer, drought
avoidance
O .
meridionalis
24 A m A m 56 Tropical
Australia
Elongation ability; drought
avoidance; tolerance to heat and
drought
O .
glumaepatula
24 A gp A gp 54 South and
Central
America
Elongation ability; source of CMS;
tolerance to heat
ORYZA SPECIES, ORYZA -RELATED GENERA,
AND THEIR USEFUL TRAITS

Species 2 n Genome Number of
accessions
O . officinalis complex
O . punctata 24, 48 BB,
BBCC
71 Africa Resistance to BPH, BB, zigzag leafhopper;
tolerance to heat and drought
O . minuta. 48 BBCC 63 Philippines
and Papua
New Guinea
Resistance to BB, blast, BPH,GLH
O . officinalis 24 CC 265 Tropical and
subtropical
Asia tropical
Australia
Resistance to thrips, BPH, GLH, WPH, BB,
stem rot; tolerance to heat
O . rhizomatis 24 CC 19 Sri Lanka Drought avoidance, resistance to blast;
tolerance to heat

O .
eichingeri
24 CC 30 South Asia
and East
Africa
Resistance to BPH, WBPH, GLH
O . latifolia 48 CCDD 40 South and
Central
America
Resistance to BPH, BB, high
biomass production
O . alta 48 CCDD 6 South and
Central
America
Resistance to striped stemborer;high
biomass production
O .
grandiglumi
s
48 CCDD 10 South and
Central
America
High biomass production
O .
australiensis
24 EE 36 Tropical
Australia
Resistance to BPH, BB, blast;
drought avoidance; tolerance to heat
and drought

O . meyeriana complex
O .
granulata
24 GG 24 South and
South Asia
Shade tolerance, adaptation to
aerobic soil
O .
meyeriana
24 GG 11 Southeast
Asia
Shade tolerance; adaptation to
aerobic soil
O . ridleyi complex
O .
longiglumis
Jansen
48 HHJJ 6 Irian Jaya,
Indonesia,
and Papua
New
Guinea
Resistance to blast, BB
O . ridleyi
Hook . F .
48 HHJJ 15 South Asia Resistance to blast, BB, tungro
virus, stem borer, whorl maggot
O .
brachyanth
a
24 FF 19 Africa Resistance to BB, yellow
stemborer, leaf folder, whorl
maggot; tolerance to laterite soil

Unclassified
O .
schlechteri
48 KKLL 1 Papua New
Guinea
Stoloniferous
O .
coarctata
48 KKLL 1 Asian
Coastal
Area
Tolerance to salinity,stoloniferous
Leersia
perrieri
24 UNKN
OWN
1 Africa –Shade tolerance, stoloniferous

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