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Oryza sativa

Plants

Family: Poaceae · Genus: Oryza

Oryza sativa

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Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, 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 domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.

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