Oryza

Oryza is a genus of plants in the grass family. It includes the major food crop rice (species Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima). Members of the genus grow as tall, wetland grasses, growing to tall; the genus includes both annual and perennial species.

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Oryza is a genus of plants within the family Poaceae. It belongs to the order Poales, class Liliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The genus is part of the tribe Oryzeae and includes the source of rice. Common names for the genus include rice, 稻属, riž, and gunguro.

The genus comprises 18 species, consisting of two cultivated varieties and seventeen native species. These plants are distributed across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Records of Oryza occurrences have been documented in Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

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Species

Oryza

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderPoales
FamilyPoaceae

Native toAndaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil South

Observations recorded466,992

稻屬（学名：Oryza）是禾本科的一屬，有18個物種，包括2个栽培种和17个原生种。分布于全球的熱帶與亞熱帶地區。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 640
With media: 508
Family: Poaceae
Collections: IIB-UV, NY, IBUNAM, UESC, US, CAS
Recorded in: Mexico, United States, Costa Rica, Brasil, Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar, Thailand

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Research

64,993 papers

The phosphorylation landscape of infection-related development by the rice blast fungus.Cell · 2024Cruz-Mireles N, Osés-Ruiz M, Derbyshire P et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.007
Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals a Stereoscopic Response of Rice Leaf Cells to Magnaporthe oryzae Infection.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Wang W, Zhang X, Zhang Y et al.DOI: 10.1002/advs.202416846
Recessive resistance genes and the Oryza sativa-Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae pathosystem.ReviewMolecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI · 2007Iyer-Pascuzzi AS, McCouch SRDOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-7-0731
Magnaporthe oryzae.Trends in microbiology · 2021Wilson RADOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.03.019
Current understanding of pattern-triggered immunity and hormone-mediated defense in rice (Oryza sativa) in response to Magnaporthe oryzae infection.ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology · 2018Nasir F, Tian L, Chang C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.10.020
Recognition of the inducible, secretory small protein OsSSP1 by the membrane receptor OsSSR1 and the co-receptor OsBAK1 confers rice resistance to the blast fungus.Molecular plant · 2024Zhao T, Ma S, Kong Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2024.04.009
An Oryza-specific hydroxycinnamoyl tyramine gene cluster contributes to enhanced disease resistance.Science bulletin · 2021Shen S, Peng M, Fang H et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.03.015
Molecular progress on the mapping and cloning of functional genes for blast disease in rice (Oryza sativa L.): current status and future considerations.ReviewCritical reviews in biotechnology · 2016Ashkani S, Rafii MY, Shabanimofrad M et al.DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2014.961403

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Oryza is situated in tribe Oryzeae, which is characterized morphologically by its single-flowered spikelets whose glumes are almost completely suppressed. In Oryza, two sterile lemma simulate glumes. The tribe Oryzeae is in subfamily Ehrhartoideae, a group of Poaceae tribes with certain features of internal leaf anatomy in common. The most distinctive leaf characteristics of this subfamily are the arm cells and fusoid cells found in their leaves.

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