“…It is well-known that introgressions from wild species helps improve qualitative traits, such as disease and pest resistance (Kumar et al 2013, Sarao et al 2016 as well as quantitative traits, such as the grain yield (Gaikwad et al 2014, Arbelaez et al 2015, Ma et al 2016, Eizenga et al 2016, Bessho-Uehara et al 2017, Bhatia et al 2017, Haritha et al 2018, and abiotic stress tolerance to salinity (Quan et al 2018), drought (Kaur et al 2017), and heat (Prasanth et al 2017) in cultivars. O. rufipogon and O. nivara and their derived lines showed a high Chl content, P N, stomatal conductance (gs), transpiration rate (E), carboxylation efficiency (CE), and water-use efficiency (WUE) (Zhao et al 2008(Zhao et al , 2010Kiran et al 2013, Kondamudi et al 2016, Haritha et al 2017, Hamaoka et al 2017. Total dry mass was improved in BC2 lines derived from O. sativa × O. rufipogon (Masumoto et al 2004, Haritha et al 2017, whereas, CE was improved in BC2F2 lines derived from new plant type (NPT) rice line IR65598-110-2 × O. longistaminata (Ding et al 2014) compared to parents.…”