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Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms.
Contents. 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 ( 粳米 ), is the staple of the Japanese diet and consists of short translucent grains. When cooked, it has a sticky texture such that it ...
Mochi (もち, 餅) [motɕi] ⓘ is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome (もち米), a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The steamed rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan, it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki ...
Production. Rice production is important to the food supply, with rice being a staple part of the Japanese diet. Japan is the ninth largest producer of rice in the world. [1] The rice seasons in Northern Japan last from May–June to September–October. In central Japan, it is from April–May to August–October.
Koshihikari. Koshihikari ( Japanese: コシヒカリ, 越光, Hepburn: Koshihikari) is a popular cultivar of Japonica rice cultivated in Japan as well as Australia and the United States. Koshihikari was first created in 1956 by combining 2 different strains of Nourin No.1 and Nourin No.22 at the Fukui Prefectural Agricultural Research Facility.
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 regions indica rice is the dominant type of rice. Japonica rice originated from Central China, where it was first ...
Bakanae (, [bakanae] BA-ka-NA-eh) or bakanae disease ( Chinese: 馬鹿苗病, Japanese: バカナエビョウ, romanized : Bakanae-byou, [bakanae bʲoɯ] ), from the Japanese for "foolish seedling", is a disease that infects rice plants. It is caused by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, the metabolism of which produces a surplus of gibberellic acid.
e. Genetically modified rice are rice strains that have been genetically modified (also called genetic engineering ). Rice plants have been modified to increase micronutrients such as vitamin A, accelerate photosynthesis, tolerate herbicides, resist pests, increase grain size, generate nutrients, flavors or produce human proteins.