Porteresia

<i>Porteresia</i>

Porteresia

Genus of grasses

Porteresia coarctata is a species of grass in the family Poaceae, native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.[3]

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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,[3] as Oryza coarctata Roxb.[4] It is a form of wild rice that grows in saline estuaries in Bangladesh and India and is harvested and eaten as a delicacy.[5] The plant is salt-tolerant, and is seen as a possibly important source of salt-tolerance genes for transfer to other rice species.[6][7] It is closely related to Oryza australiensis.[8] The leaves of this species secrete salt through special microhair like structures that have three morphotypes, and a method to isolate these structures has been developed.[9] Porteresia coarctata is a perennial species that shows substantial underground rhizomatous growth. The rhizome tissues give out aerial shoots in a favourable season.[10]

References

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    "entry for Porteresia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
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    "The Plant List". Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. [3]
    Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, entry for Oryza
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    "Tropicos.org". Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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    Kabir, SM Humayun (2012). "Rice". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
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    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. PMID 19843254.
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    Flowers, T. J.; Flowers, S. A.; Hajibagheri, M. A.; Yeo, A. R. (April 1990). "Salt Tolerance in the Halophytic Wild Rice, Porteresia coarctata Tateoka". The New Phytologist. 114 (4): 675–684. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1990.tb00439.x. JSTOR 2556839.
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    Rangan, L.; Sankararamasubramanian, H. M.; Radha, R.; Swaminathan, M. S. (2002). "Genetic relationship of Porteresia coarctata Tateoka using molecular markers". Plant Biosystems. 136 (3): 339–348. doi:10.1080/11263500212331351239. S2CID 84612331.
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    Rajakani, Raja; Sellamuthu, Gothandapani; Saravanakumar, V.; Kannappan, S.; Shabala, Lana; Meinke, Holger; Chen, Zhonghua; Zhou, Meixue; Parida, Ajay; Shabala, Sergey & Venkataraman, Gayatri (2019). "Microhair on the adaxial leaf surface of salt secreting halophytic Oryza coarctata Roxb. show distinct morphotypes: Isolation for molecular and functional analysis". Plant Science. 285: 248–257. doi:10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.05.004. PMID 31203890. S2CID 164424933.
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    Jagtap, T.G., Bhosale, S. and Charulata, S., 2006. Characterization of Porteresia coarctata beds along the Goa coast, India. Aquatic Botany, 84(1), pp.37-44.


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