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    Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around...
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    Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family. It includes the major food crop rice (species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima). Members of the genus...
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    Oryza sativa is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice. It was first...
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    Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice)—or, much less commonly, Oryza glaberrima (African rice). Asian rice was domesticated...
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    and is found in open habitats. It is the progenitor of cultivated Oryza glaberrima, African rice. It has nodal roots hosting nitrogen fixing, photosynthetic...
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    the Americas as part of the Columbian exchange. The now less common Oryza glaberrima rice was independently domesticated in Africa around 3,000 years ago...
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    Wild rice is not directly related to domesticated rice (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima), although both belong to the same botanical tribe Oryzeae...
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    future. The earliest types grown in South Carolina were the African Oryza glaberrima and the prized "Carolina Gold," which is believed to originate in Southeast...
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    varieties. Also included in this list are varieties of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and wild rice (genus Zizania). Rice may vary in genetics, grain length...
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  • rhabarbarum Ribwort – Plantago major Rice Asian rice – Oryza sativa African rice – Oryza glaberrima Roadweed – Plantago major Rocket – (several genera) Dame's...
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    domesticated in the Niger River region, including yams, African rice (Oryza glaberrima), and pearl millet. The Sahara aridification may have triggered, or...
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    ISBN 978-0-674-02921-7. Linares, Olga F. (2002-12-10). "African rice (Oryza glaberrima): History and future potential". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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    Hinduism Oryza glaberrima, also known as African red rice Oryza longistaminata, also known as red rice Oryza punctata, also known as red rice Oryza rufipogon...
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  • alphabetically. Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely...
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    Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). Pictured is a mixture of brown, white, and red indica...
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  • Africa", is two families of interspecific cultivars of African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice species, that was developed to improve the yields...
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    Niger. The main agricultural crop is rice. African floating rice (Oryza glaberrima) has traditionally been grown in regions near the river that are inundated...
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    domesticated rice, wild rice has nearly twice the dietary fibre of Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima and contains around 15% protein and lipids including essential...
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    cultivating Carolina gold rice in South Carolina on Snee farm plantation. Species Oryza glaberrima (Steud.) Origin South Carolina Lowcountry and the Sea Islands...
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    meeting the growing demand for rice as a food staple. African rice Oryza glaberrima has been cultivated for 3,500 years and is well adapted to the African...
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    between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria (northern Benin), rice (oryza glaberrima) in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali, pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus)...
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    approximately 16% broken rice, 20% husk, 14% bran and meal. African rice, Oryza glaberrima, has more brittle grains, and breakage is higher.[citation needed]...
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    between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria (northern Benin), rice (oryza glaberrima) in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali, pearl millet (cenchrus americanus)...
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  • ground kernels or by-products obtained from the species Oryza sativa L. or Oryza glaberrima, or wild rice, which is obtained from one of the four species...
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    knowledge of how to cultivate it. The two primary species used were Oryza glaberrima and Oryza sativa, originating from West Africa and Southeast Asia, respectively...
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    Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima. Oryza sativa is a native of East Asia and makes up the visible entirety of all rice cultivated in the world. Oryza...
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  • the local customs and traditions, with ingredients like native rice (Oryza glaberrima), rice, fonio, millet, sorghum, Bambara groundnuts and Hausa groundnuts...
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  • ka, two rice species are domesticated: Asian rice, Oryza sativa, and African rice Oryza glaberrima. Development of rooted plants Flowering plants vs....
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    savanna and woodlands Vigna unguiculata 3,700 Digitaria exilis and Oryza glaberrima <3,000 4b) west African rainforests Dioscorea rotundata and Elaeis...
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    occurred in the Sahel region c. 5000 BCE, when sorghum and African rice (Oryza glaberrima) began to be cultivated. Around this time, and in the same region,...
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