The Oryza genus is thought to have originated about 14 million years ago in what is now SouthEast Asia and the Philippines. Since then, it has

Aside from the two cultivated species of rice – Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima – the Oryza genus includes about another 20 other species, although the

Zizania — a genus of wild grasses from North America and China — is commonly known as “wild rice”, despite its rather distant relationship to the