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Keywords: Oryza sativa, taxonomy, origin of cultivated rice, evolutionary pathway, polyphyletic origin of O. sativa, changes during domestication, changes after domestication, rice production by country, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, wild rices, chromosome number, geographic distribution, O. officinalis complex, O. ridleyi complex, O. meyerlana complex, O. brachyantha, O. schlechteri, related genera in tribe Oryzeae, genome analysis, chromosome pairing in interspecific hybrids, molecular divergence analysis, RFLP analysis, AFLP analysis, seed protein analysis, rice ecosystems, irrigated wetland rice, rainfed wetland rice, deepwater rice, dryland rice, tidal wetlands, modern rice breeding, yield potential, short growth duration, multiple disease and insect resistance, blast, bacterial blight, tungro, grassy stunt, green leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, yellow stem borer Scirpophaga incertulas, gall midge Orseolia oryzae, tolerance to abiotic stresses, new plant type, hybrid rices, biotechnology, anther culture, wide hybridization, somaclonal variation, molecular

marker technology, molecular marker-aided selection, pyramiding major genes, map-based gene cloning, genetic engineering, rice genomics