Rice
Rice is the main food for about one-third to one-half of the world's population. A mature rice plant is usually two to six feet tall. In the beginning, one shoot appears. It is followed by one, two, or more offshoots developing. There are at least five or six hollow joints for each stalk, and a leaf for each joint. The leaf of the rice plant is long, pointed, flat, and stiff. The highest join of the rice plant is called the panicle. The rice grains develop from the panicles. (Jodon, 300) Rice is classified in the grass family Gramineae. Its genus is Oryza and species O. sativa. It is commonly cultivated for food in Asia. Some varieties of rice include red rice, glutinous rice, and wild rice. (Jodon, 303) The kernel within the grain contains most of the vitamins and minerals (298). The kernel contains thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin (299). Rice has many enemies that destroy a majority of the rice crops. The larvae of moth, stem borers, live in the stems of the rice plants. Some insects suck the plant juices or chew the leaves. Birds, such as bobolink, Java sparrow, or paddybird, would eat the seeds or grains. Disease causing factors such as fungi, roundworms, viruses, and bacteria also destroy the r
(300) Cultivation of the rice plant requires controlling the water supply and weeding the rice fields. This new breed was thought to have been to reduce the food shortages that depend on rice as a staple food, but because of various conditions in other countries, this rice plant was not very successful. (Ronald, 104) The purpose of Japan's rice genome project is to fully map the twelve chromosomes of the rice plant. The dirt walls are used to hold in water for the fields. Scientists hope that these projects will be finished, and that farmers will be using the enhanced genes on their rice plants by the beginning of the next century. In the Philippines, farmers grow mushrooms on beds of rice straw. After the grains germinate, the water is drained. Blast disease is caused by fungi which causes the panicles containing the grains to break. This is because of various factors that destroy the rice plants before they can be harvested for commercial use. (Jodon, 300) There are various types of rice grown all over the world.
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