African Rice

African Rice The Under-Recognised Cultivated Rice Species and their Significance

 

Editors: Koichi Futakuchi and Aminou Arouna

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22733-1

eBook :ISBN978-3-032-22733-1Published: 16 July 2026

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This book provides a comprehensive resource on Asian rice’s lesser-known sister African Rice. The book offers valuable information on African Rice as a food crop and as a genetic resource for Asian rice. African rice has the same AA genome as Asian rice and, although interspecies crosses are rare, several traits of the African rice species have been used to improve Asian rice. This book details successful cases of such breeding strategies and explores the potential of African Rice as genomic resource for Asian rice. The value of African rice is presented from both a biophysical aspect as well as the socio-economic aspects. The book also details the domestication of African rice as well as its historical dispersal process and current geographical distributions through anthropological, historical, phylogenetic, and genetic conservation studies.

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