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In Bhutan, weedy rice (Oryza sativa L.) was grown together with cultivated rice on terraced paddy fields lower than 2620 m above sea level. Seeds of cultivars and weedy strains were collected at 22 collection sites located from 1000 to 2620 m above sea level. Cultivars with round seeds were frequently found in fields higher than 2250 m, and those with slender seeds in fields lower than 1630 m. All cultivars and weedy strains were divided into indica or japonica types by isozyme (multi-locus) and morpho-physiological (multicharacter) analyses. Japonica cultivars predominated in highland; Indica cultivars predominated in lowland. Plastid type was confirmed by the length polymorphism for the ORF100 region. The japonica cultivars carried non-deletion type ORF100. The indica cultivars carried deletion type ORF100. In contrast, weedy strains showed discrepancy in the combination of the nuclear and cytoplasm types. An intermediate type was found in weedy strains for isozyme genotypes. A recombinant type, which has indica genotypes for isozyme analysis with japonica cytoplasm, and vice versa, was frequently found in weedy strains. These findings suggested that weedy strains would be generated by natural hybridization between indica and japonica. Further, they might fail to recombine their prior genotypes sets for isozyme and cytoplasm. Morphophysiological characters did not show such a tendency. Morpho-physiological analysis of highland plants, in particular, showed indica cultivars and weedy strains with japonica cytoplasm. Hypervariable nuclear microsatellite analysis was then used to compare cultivars and weedy strains. Identical alleles were shared between indica and japonica, and also between cultivars and weedy strains. This suggested that there was gene-flow resulting from natural hybridization.
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Ishikawa, R., Toki, N., Imai, K. et al. Origin of Weedy Rice Grown in Bhutan and the Force of Genetic Diversity. Genet Resour Crop Evol 52, 395–403 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-005-2257-x
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