Oryza sativa commonly known as Asian rice is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. Oryza sativa is the cereal with the largest genome consisting of 430Mb across 12 chromosomes. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify and is a model organism for cereal biology.
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