“…Reduction in grain yield due to this stress is high in Burundi, Sierra leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Srilanka, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Colombia, Benin, Ivory Coast, Niger, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Liberia [ 21 – 24 ]. This is also a problem in few locations in Kerala, Coastal and hilly zones of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, valley soils in Odisha and north eastern region of Meghalaya in India [ 17 , 23 , 24 ]. Existence of genetic variation for Fe-toxicity tolerance in rice is reported in many publications [ 17 , 25 – 30 ].…”