Zizania

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Zizania

a genus of plants of the family Gramineae. They are grasses 1.5–3 m tall that live in the shallow areas of bodies of water and along the slow waters of rivers and lakes. The flowers are unisexual. There are two to three species of Zizania in North America and East Asia. The annual North American plant Z. aquatica, also known as wild rice, Canadian rice, aquatic rice, and Indian rice, is a valuable source of food and fodder. In the USSR it is occasionally encountered, primarily in Leningrad Oblast. The perennial East Asian plant Z. latifola is found in Transbaikalia and in the Far East. It is a useful, edible plant.

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A preliminary report of overwinter and control method of stem borer on water bamboo, Zizania latifolia (Griseb).

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An early study on the roots of a North American wild rice, Zizania aquatica [3], has been followed by relatively little on anatomy of the roots and stems, including Zizania latifolia [4-9], although considerable leaf anatomy is known [5].

Anatomy and histochemistry of roots and shoots in wild rice (Zizania latifolia Griseb.)

XiaoPing Y (2000) Role of Saccharosydne procerus on Zizania caduciflora as an alternate host for Anagrus nilaparvatae, the egg parasitoid of the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, which attacks temperate rice.

First record of the genus Saccharosydne Kirkaldy 1907 (Hemiptera--Fulgoromorpha--Delphacidae) in Argentina/Primer registro del genero Saccharosydne Kirkaldy 1907 (Hemiptera--Fulgoromorpha--Delphacidae) en Argentina/Primeiro registro do genero Saccharosydne Kirkaldy 1907 (Hemiptera--Fulgoromorpha--Delphacidae) na Argentina

Genetic variability is correlated with population size and reproduction in American wild-rice (Zizania palustris var.

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Chapter 12 Wetlands

Wild-rice (Zizania aquatica), another wetland crop, is harvested on a commercial basis in the marshes and open water wetlands of northwest Ontario and southern Manitoba.

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As he traveled through Lake of the Woods he noted how wild rice (Zizania aquatica) grew in abundance throughout the lake and into the Winnipeg River system.

Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada

Woods and Gutek (1974) reported that freshly harvested wild rice (Zizania palustris L.) germinated following removal of the lemma and palea and scraping the pericarp covering the embryo.

Cupule removal and caryopsis scarification improves germination of eastern gamagrass seed. (Seed Physiology, Production & Technology)

The decline and threatened extinction of Texas wild-rice (Zizania texana Hitchs).

Environmental correlates to the abundance of spring-adapted versus stream-adapted fishes

With the dam compromised, the river dropped and its width narrowed, leaving 25 percent of the entire population of the endangered Texas wild-rice (Zizania texana) either high and dry or in water flowing too fast.