The wild rice species Oryza rufipogon Griff. is a common perennial known to have been the progenitor of the Asian cultivated rice species, O. sativa L.. This species serves as a precious reservoir of genetic diversity that can be used to improve cultivated rice with many valuable genes, particularly those conferring resistance to major biotic and abiotic stressors. Several useful genes have been detected and successfully introgressed from O. rufipogon to cultivars, such as resistance to bacterial leaf blight (BB), brown plant hopper (BPH) and tungro virus, and tolerance to aluminum, sulfate soil, and so on…

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