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Phenotypic Characterization of Oryza nivara (Sharma et Shastry) Collected from Different Ecological Niches of Sri Lanka

Salinda Sandamal^1,2,3,#, Asanka Tennakoon^1,#, Parakkrama Wijerathna¹, Song Ge^2,3, DABN Amarasekera⁴, Buddhi Marambe⁵, Sara M. Elwany⁶, Sobhy Sorour⁶, Ayman El Sabagh⁶, Mohamed M. Hassan⁷, Disna Ratnasekera^1,*

1 Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Matara, 81100, Sri Lanka
2 State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
4 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Matara, 81100, Sri Lanka
5 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, 20400, Sri Lanka
6 Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33516, Egypt
7 Department of Biology, College of Science, Taif University, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

* Corresponding Author: Disna Ratnasekera. Email:
# These authors contributed equally to this work