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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2011 Apr 11;77(1):154–164. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01092.x

Table 1.

Characteristics of ten rice cultivars used to assess the bacterial community associated with roots.

Cultivars O. sativa subspecies Observations Sampled Origina
Improved APO indica Good performance under aerobic conditions and responsiveness to nutrients Wetland PI
IR 36 indica High yield crop, resistance to many insect pets and plant diseases Wetland PI
IR 64 indica Replace cultivar IR 36 as the largest planted cultivar in the 1980s Wetland PI
IR 65600 indica An elite breeding line of New Plant Type (NPT) developed by crossing subspecies indica with tropical japonica Wetland PI
IR 72 indica Replace cultivar IR 64 in the 1990s Wetland PI
Traditional DEE indica Parent donor of modern cultivars. Spontaneous mutant, with dwarfing gene Wetland TW
Peta indica Parent donor of modern cultivars, photoperiod insensitivity. Resistance to tungro virus Wetland ID
Basmati aromatica Superfine grain qualities, distinct aroma. Tolerant to aluminium Wetland IN
Azucena tropical Aromatic. Wetland PI
japonica Tolerant to aluminium
Morobere kan tropical Resistance to rice blast and tolerant to Upland GN
japonica drought and aluminium
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Countries of origin: PI- Philippines; IN- India; ID- Indonesia; TW- Taiwan; GN- Guinea