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Crop Improvement of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Utilizing Wild Species and Transgenic Rice

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Oryza sativa L., belonging to Poaceae family, is one of the most efficacious crops on the globe and staple food for more than half of the global population. The genus Oryza has 22 wild species and two cultivated species of rice. The wild rice species have novel valuable alleles that have vanished from cultivated rice due to domestication. Wild rice species could be plausible reservoirs of novel genes/Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) to transfer lost diversity at genetic levels in the cultivated rice with elite genetic backgrounds for better agronomically important traits of grain yield, quality, and adaptation to stressors. The rice genome was sequenced under an International Rice Genome Sequencing Project in 2005. The databases for genomic sequences, genes, and QTLs of rice are available. Transgenic rice lines or genetically improved rice showed increased tolerance to salinity, drought, heat, and cold abiotic stresses with improved yields. Rice is genetically modified to combat attacks by bacterial, fungal, and viral pathogens and designing disease-resilient varieties.

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Pandita, D. (2023). Crop Improvement of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Utilizing Wild Species and Transgenic Rice. In: Hasanuzzaman, M. (eds) Climate-Resilient Agriculture, Vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37424-1_38

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