Asian rice
Oryza sativa
The story
Long before it became a global staple, Asian cultivated rice was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China. This historic agricultural milestone took place between 13,500 and 8,200 years ago, marking the beginning of humanity's deep relationship with this essential cereal grass.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
- Family
- Poaceae
How to use it
Beyond its primary role as a global food crop, Oryza sativa is highly valued in scientific research. Because it is easy to genetically modify and possesses a 430Mb genome across 12 chromosomes, it is widely utilized as a model organism for studying cereal biology.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
About
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.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Oryza sativa
- Slug
- oryza-sativa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Oryza
- Species
- sativa
- Wikidata QID
- Q161426
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
summaryinaturalist
fun_facts_kidsllm_gemini · confidence 1.00
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza sativa
- inaturalist (common_name)
- wikidata (common_name)
fun_facts_adultllm_gemini · confidence 1.00
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza sativa
- wikidata (common_name)
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza_sativa
storyllm_gemini · confidence 1.00
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza_sativa
how_to_usellm_gemini · confidence 1.00
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza sativa