is a popular cultivar of
Japonica rice
Japonica rice (''Oryza sativa'' subsp. ''japonica''), sometimes called sinica rice, is one of the two major domestic types of Asian rice varieties. Japonica rice is extensively cultivated and consumed in East Asia, whereas in most other region ...
cultivated in
Japan
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as well as
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and the
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.
''Koshihikari'' was first created in 1956 by combining 2 different strains of ''Nourin No.1'' and ''Nourin No.22'' at the
Fukui
is a Japanese name meaning "fortunate" or sometimes "one who is from the Fukui prefecture". It may refer to:
Places
* Fukui Domain, a part of the Japanese han system during the Edo period
* Fukui Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in ...
Prefectural Agricultural Research Facility. It is one of the most highly grown varieties of rice in
Japan
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and is exported to other countries as a premium product.
Etymology
The
character
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for is used to represent the old
Koshi Province
was an ancient province or region of Japan in what is now the Hokuriku region. The region as a whole was sometimes referred to as .
Koshi appears as one of the original provinces in the '' Nihon Shoki''. In 598 AD, the residents of Koshi prese ...
, which stretched from present-day
Fukui
is a Japanese name meaning "fortunate" or sometimes "one who is from the Fukui prefecture". It may refer to:
Places
* Fukui Domain, a part of the Japanese han system during the Edo period
* Fukui Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in ...
to
Yamagata. ''Koshihikari'' can be translated as "the light of Koshi".
Related varieties
Other rice varieties close to its strains, such as
Akitakomachi,
Hitomebore, and
Hinohikari were subsequently created by cross-breeding ''Koshihikari'' with other Japanese varieties of rice.
Characteristics
*Highly susceptible to
blast disease
''Magnaporthe grisea'', also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast, and Imochi (Japanese:稲熱) is a ...
*Its stem collapses easily when mature
See also
*
Japanese rice
Japanese rice refers to a number of short-grain cultivars of Japonica rice including ordinary rice (''uruchimai'') and glutinous rice (''mochigome'').
Ordinary Japanese rice, or ''uruchimai'' (:ja:粳米, 粳米), is the staple of the Japanese ...
References
External links
JA Uonuma Minami (Japanese) JA branch in South of Uonuma area in Japan
{{Varieties of rice
Agriculture in Japan
Flora of Japan
Japonica rice