Degree Celsius
North latitude
South latitude
Micrometre (= 10-6 m)
4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase
Amplified fragment length polymorphism
Acetolactate synthase
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Ammonia-oxidising archaea
Ammonia-oxidising bacteria
Apomictic Offspring Producer
Apple mosaic virus
Adenosine triphosphate
African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa’s Development
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Bacterial blight
Backcross
Before the Common (or current) Era
Biological control organism
Brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens)
Bacillus thuringiensis
Carthamus genus
CRISPR associated protein 9
OECD Chemicals and Biotechnology Committee
Centimetre
Centimorgan (or map unit [m.u.], a unit for measuring genetic linkage)
Cytoplasmic male sterility
Critically endangered species (IUCN Red List category)
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
Chinese wild rice
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Environment-sensitive genic male sterility
Endangered species (IUCN Red List category)
Effective pollination period
Effector-triggered immunity
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Statistical Databases
Gramme
Gigabases (= 109 base pairs; genome size unit)
Genetically engineered
Genetic male sterility
Green rice leafhopper
Germplasm Resources Information Network
Global Rice Science Partnership
Gametophytic self-incompatibility
Guanosine-5'-triphosphate
Beta-glucuronidase
Hour
Hectare
Integrated Genetic Linkage Map
International Life Sciences Institute – Center for Environmental Risk Assessment
International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
International Rice Research Institute
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Kilogramme
Kilometre
Honglian (a wild rice CMS type)
Lead rice
Liang-You-Pei-Jiu (a hybrid rice strain)
Metre
Malus genus
Square metre
Marker-assisted selection
Megabases (=106 base pairs; genome size unit)
Megabases pair
Milligramme
Marker-linked GMS
Millimetre
Michigan State University
Million years ago
Nucleotide-Binding Site Leucine-Rich Repeat
New Rice for Africa
Nuclear male sterility
Near threatened species (IUCN Red List category)
Oryza genus
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Pyricularia genus
Peiai 64S (a photo-thermo-sensitive genic male sterile line)
Protospacer adjacent motif
Pathogen-associated molecular patterns
Programmed cell death
Polyethylene glycol (method)
Picogramme (= 10-12 g)
Photoperiod-sensitive genic male sterility
Potential of hydrogen
Polyphenol oxidase
Pentatricopeptide repeat
Pathogenesis-related (protein)
PAMP-triggered immunity
Quantitative trait locus (plural form: Q. T. Loci)
Random amplified polymorphic DNA
Rice Annotation Project Database
Rice black-streaked dwarf virus
Rice dwarf virus
Rice grassy stunt virus
Ribonucleic acid interference
Reactive oxygen species
Rice ragged stunt virus
Rice stripe virus
Rice tungro bacilliform virus
Rice tungro spherical virus
Salicylic acid
Small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus)
Site-directed nuclease
OECD Series on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Sequence-related amplified polymorphism
Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus
Self-incompatibility ribonuclease
Simple sequence repeat
Tonne
Transcription activator-like effector nucleases
Thermo-sensitive genic male sterility
Targeting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes
Transmission ratio distortion
United Nations Environment Programme
United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service
Vulnerable species (IUCN Red List category)
Wild abortive
Whitebacked planthopper (Sogatella furcifera)
OECD Working Party on the Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology
OECD Working Party for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds