A. Chev. & Roehr.)(Second, 1982), which diverged 0.6–0.7 million years ago from O. sativa (Zhu and Ge, 2005; Ammiraju et al., 2008). While Asian rice has spread worldwide and become the most produced food crop in the world, African rice is grown only in tropical West Africa and there sporadically. Oryza glaberrima demonstrates a typical case of reduction of genetic diversity observed in crops compared to their wild progenitors as a result of the dual bottlenecks of domestication and breeding (Buckler et al., 2001; Tenaillon et al., 2004; Zeder
