Amazon wild rice refers to either of the two native (endemic) species of rice (Oryza) found in the Amazon region of South America and adjacent tropical areas, Oryza glumaepatula and Oryza latifolia. It also can refer to the cultivated form Oryza sp. (unnamed rice species) which was domesticated from one or both of the wild forms some 4,000 years ago by the indigenous people of the Amazon region.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Hilbert, Lautaro; Neves, Eduardo Góes; Pugliese, Francisco; Whitney, Bronwen S.; Shock, Myrtle; Veasey, Elizabeth; Zimpel, Carlos Augusto; Iriarte, José (2017). "Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (11): 1693–1698. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0322-4. hdl:10871/33891. PMID 28993622. S2CID 256727214.
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