Relationships between Iraqi Rice Varieties

In this project, five varieties of Oryza sativa were obtained from Baghdad/Iraq, and the whole genomic DNA was sequenced, among these varieties, Amber33, Furat, Yasmin, Buhooth1 and Amber al-Baraka. We reported the whole chloroplast genome sequence for Iraqi rice and compared it with the whole chloroplast sequence of other domesticated Asian rice varieties. This provided an important tool for estimating genetic distance and determining evolutionary relationships between rice accessions; the nuclear genomes also provided further information on the relationships between the varieties studied. The study aimed to determine the origin and evolution of Iraqi rice, especially Amber33.