PORTERESIA

Porteresia coarctata is a species of grass in the Poaceae, family, native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Porteresia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Porteresia Tateoka
Species:	P. coarctata
Binomial name
Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka
Synonyms
Indoryza coarctata (Roxb.) A.N.Henry & B.Roy Oryza coarctata Roxb. Oryza triticoides Griff. Sclerophyllum coarctatum (Roxb.) Griff.

Porteresia coarctata is considered by some botanists to be the only species in the genus, Porteresia. Other authors maintain instead that it should belong in the rice genus Oryza, as Oryza coarctataRoxb. It is a form of wild rice that grows in saline estuaries in Bangladesh and is harvested and eaten as a delicacy. The plant is salt-tolerant, and is seen as a possibly important source of salt-tolerance genes for transfer to other rice species. It is closely related to Oryza australiensis.

References

1. ^ "entry for Porteresia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
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3. ^ ^a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, entry for Oryza.
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5. ^ SM Humayun Kabir (2012). "Rice".  In Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
6. ^ Sengupta, S.; Majumder, A. L. (2010). "Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) Tateoka, a wild rice: A potential model for studying salt-stress biology in rice". Plant, Cell & Environment 33 (4): 526–542. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02054.x.
7. ^ "Salt Tolerance in the Halophytic Wild Rice, Porteresia coarctata Tateoka" 114: 675–684. JSTOR 2556839.
8. ^ Rangan, L.; Sankararamasubramanian, H. M.; Radha, R.; Swaminathan, M. S. (2002). "Genetic relationship of Porteresia coarctata Tateoka using molecular markers". Plant Biosystems - an International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 136 (3): 339–348. doi:10.1080/11263500212331351239.

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