TY  - JOUR
T1  - Better Exploitation of African Rice (<I>Oryza glaberrima</I> Steud.) in Varietal Development for Resource-Poor Farmers in West and Central Africa
AU - , Koichi Futakuchi AU - , Moussa Sie 
JO  - Agricultural Journal
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 96
EP  - 102
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9155
DO  - aj.2009.96.102
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=aj.2009.96.102
KW  - Backcrossing
KW  -interspecific breeding
KW  -Oryza glaberrima Steud.
KW  -Oryza sativa L.
KW  -West and Central Africa
AB  - Inter specific breeding between <I>Oryza sativa</I> and <I>Oryza glaberrima</I> was started at WARDA with the basic concept of combining the resistance of <I>O. glaberrima</I> to local constraints in West and Central Africa (WCA) with the high yielding ability of <I>O. sativa</I>. Developed interspecific progeny is now called as NERICA, which was named after New Rice for Africa and 18 upland NERICA varieties and eleven lowland NERICA varieties have been released or widely disseminated in several WCA countries. Some of them were beyond WCA and released in other sub-Saharan Africa countries such as Uganda. However, a gap is still existing between current NERICA varieties and <I>O. glaberrima</I> lines with special reference to resistance to local constraints in WCA. In this study, published data and also some additional unpublished data on the performance of NERICA and <I>O. glaberrima</I> were critically reviewed and possible improvements and further directions in rice breeding with better exploitation of <I>O. glaberrima</I> were proposed.
ER  -