Magna messuum parte eo consilio ut homines aliantur non exculta, oryza est gravissimum frumentum proprium nutritionis humanae et consumptioniscaloriorum, quod plus quam quintam caloriorum partem a specie humana in orbe terrarum consumptam offert.[2]
Bruce D. Smith, The Emergence of Agriculture (Novi Eboraci: Scientific American Library, a Division of HPHLP, 1998).
Fontes antiquiores
1330: Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] p. 511-513 et alibi)
1548: William Turner, The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duch and Frenche. Londinii: John Day, 1548 (s.v. "Oryza" apud Google Books) (Ryse groweth plentuously in watery myddowes betwene Myllane and Pauia)
Surajit K. De Datta, Principles and Practices of Rice Production. Novi Eboraci: Wiley, 1981 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
Henry C. Dethloff, A history of the American rice industry, 1685-1985. 1988.Exemplar mutuabile.
D. Eltis, et al., "Agency and diaspora in Atlantic history: reassessing the African contribution to rice cultivation in the Americas" in American Historical Review vol. 112 (2007) pp. 1329–1358.JSTOR.
Shah Fahad et al., "Major Constraints for Global Rice Production" in Mirza Hassanuzzaman et al., edd., Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Elsevier, 2019) pp. 1-22.
Dorian Q. Fuller, Cristina Cobo Castillo, "Origins and development of rice" in C. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer, 2013) pp. 6339-6343
Walter Hawthorne, Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900. Portsmouth Novae Hantoniae, 2003.
P. Richards, "Agrarian creolization: the ethnobiology, history, culture and politics of West African rice" in R. Ellen, K. Fukui, edd., Redefining nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication (Oxoniae: Berg, 1996)