Rice
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation) . A mixture of brown, white, and red indica rice, also containing wild rice , Zizania species Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain , it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after corn , according to data for 2010. [1] Oryza sativa with small wind pollinated flowers Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. [2] Genetic evidence has shown that rice originates from a single domestication 8,200–13,500 years ago [3] in the Pe
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