Unlocking the potential of wild Oryza barthii

Oryza barthii is one of two
wild species in Africa to share the same basic genome as the cultivated species
(O. sativa and O. glaberrima), in fact O. barthii is considered
by most as the species from which African rice (O. glaberrima) was
domesticated.



Like its descendent, it has a
number of features that make it interesting to the canny breeder: it has long
panicles, diverse grain sizes,